Wonky Wacom Tablet (jumping cursor with short strokes)
You probably don't want to read this message unless you landed here with a Google search. This is a message of hope to all of you Wacom users that are experiencing this very bizarre behavior with your Graphire or Intuos tablet on a Mac. (I'm using a Graphire... for now...) That said, I hear it's also a problem with Cintiq tablets. Here are the symptoms:
- When you draw short strokes, the cursor jumps back to the beggining of the line for a fraction of a second.
- At first, this seems like a lag problem, but it's not... it's specific to short strokes and always involves the cursor jumping back.
- Thus, if you draw a series of short strokes (for example, writing words), your lines will stutter and be all over the place (and look horrible).
- It works fine on a PC.
- It doesn't do the same thing with the (Wacom) mouse.
- Problems are worst in Photoshop or Painter, but they actually do exist elsewhere in the system (it's just not really noticeable much).
Basically, the driver is causing the cusor to jump back to the beginning of your line in anticipation of a double-click. This strikes me as a driver error, but I'm not holding my breath for Wacom to fix it.
35 comments:
Been searching for a solution to this problem a for some time now. Your solution works great! Thank you so much for posting this!
If I were physically near you, I'd hug you. It helps! Thank you :)
You are a lifesaver, that was driving me utterly mad!!
Thanks so much for this advice...it's fixed!
Thanks a lot for posting this!
I wish you all the best.
Geez. Who knew (you did!)? The tablet works just fine for years, then whammo! It starts getting wonky and misbehaving. This is one of those nightmare issues that make working impossible.
Thank you for posting this solution!
Thank you so much.
This has been bugging me for ages and it's now fixed.
Thank the heavens for blog! I just recently bought a Mac book pro and was having the exact issue. I spent about 2 days trying to resolve this issue until i stumbled onto this blog. Thank you very much!
Thannnnnk youuuuuuu! This has been driving me crazy and I haven't been able to find a solution anywhere.
Thank you soooo much! This has been bugging me for the better part of half a year after a system reinstall!
I thought I'd have to buy a new tablet!
Thank you!
Omg you saved my life + tablet's!
it helped a bit, but i still can't write short strokes...thanks for putting this up
it helped a bit, but i still can't write short strokes...thanks for putting this up
Didn’t change anything. Intuos Pen & Touch on MAC
Didn’t change anything. Intuos Pen & Touch on MAC
This occurred in Adobe Illustrator for me and was really driving me mad. Thank you!
Wow! It worked! I have been suffering the problem many months and you got the right solution! Thank you very much! I'm from Finland and this advice keeps me warm whole winter! Go and look some of my works: http://petterimattila.carbonmade.com
I am having this problem, bit I have turned my double-click distance completely off, and it still skips. I have found that the only thing that works is to uninstall the tablet and re-install it, but every time I want to use it I have to do this, and it's getting really annoying. Any other tricks?
I got a new Mac Pro with Yosemite and was blaming the new computer for the problem - and this was it!!!!!! I was so frustrated I just wanted to go back to my circa 2005 PowerPC G5. Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
You saved my life. I've been struggling with this for ages, and the solution was so easy. Thank you! <3
THANK YOU!!! I couldn't find any solution to this, so I was starting to think that there's something wrong with my tablet, because I've had it for quite a long time.. But my old friend is just fine after all :))
THANK YOU!!!!!!!! you're a genius!
STILL A PROBLEM! I was looking at that setting, but thought "naw... it couldn't be that!"
I was just about to post to Photoshop's forum when I realized that it happened inside the Wacom System Preferences "customize" pen pressure window.
Brilliant solution—AND, terrible that this thread is still relevant 8 years later!
I was having odd behavior in finder when quickly jumping through folders. Felt like my SSD was stuttering the mouse every time I opened a new folder, which seemed ridiculous to me. Turning this setting off has fixed my issue! Double clicking without it on isn't a problem for me at all.
Holy craP! This seems to work so far! I thought my mouse was broken so I bought a new mouse; same problem. I thought I had some type of virus. I had a fresh Win reinstall which seemed to fix it for a while but then crazy mouse again. I was using my wacom tablet as a 3rd monitor. I finally realized it was a my wacom specifically that was causing the problem. Because when I turned it off, my mouse acted normal again. I thought I was screwed ...until you saved my ass THANKS!
I just bought wacom intuos draw graphic tablet for my MBP and I used it mainly for note taking. I can do short strokes if I draw very slowly, otherwise, my pen would lag a bit or stutter. It was driving me mad! I thought it was the app I'm using (onenote). I was thinking maybe the autosynchronizing is what causing the lag. After using your advice, I switched my tip double click distance from max to off. No more annoying "lags" when I write my notes!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What Elena said! This is a fantastic tip, thank you! (Tried it and it seems to work).
I just wanted to say thank you so so so VERY much.
I use the wacom tablet to give live math lectures and never had this problem until I updated the driver. It was terrible and I tried EVERYTHING (except of course the double click distance setting).
I was about to buy a new tablet to rule out a broken/overused tablet.
For anyone wondering if they have this problem, it is most noticeable for me when I am writing. The letters would not be consistent, especially in the stroke length of each portion of the letter. It was very noticable.
Now the tablet is back to working SMOOTH as butter.
THANK YOU.
THANK YOU!!
I can't understand why this fix isn't 'published' more widely. Regardless, I mostly use my tablet for short strokes and this was beginning to get very frustrating. THANKS!!
THANK YOU!!!!
You rescued me from what would have been the worst presentation I've ever done. Now it will only be the worst presentation I'll do this week!
This is still helping people in 2020, thanks! I was about to reinstall my driver per every other forum on this topic, but no need. I am now happily hatching away.
Thank you so much!!! I have been looking for a solution for months. Your solution works perfectly.
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