Have to press really hard with my tablet pen

[Tünde]

Hi there,

I've been TVPainting on someone else's Windows Vista PC the past few weeks ('cause the owner is on vacation). I put on the computer this morning and the tablet is doing weird. I have to press really hard to get the line that I should get by pressing normal. I tried to restart the computer, it updated for half an hour or so and then restarted the computer again, but nothing changed. When I press the tablet pen like I normally do it gives such a thin line that you can hardly see it. I tried several brushes but it was all the same. Does someone recognizes this problem and know how to fix it?

Thanks!

Edit: Oh, by the way, I already tried the Wacom settings but they were at their highest pressure settings. And the tablet point thing is not very old so that couldn't be it either...

[ZigOtto]

a couple of screengrabs could help us to point the cause of your "pressure" trouble :
- wacom driver's settings
- tvpa drawing tool's settings
btw, what tablet device do you have and what's your driver's version ...?

[Tünde]

It's a Wacom Intuos 2, model XD-0608-U. Here's a screenshot of TVPaint...

The left line is when I press the tablet pen like I always do. The one in the middle is when I press a bit harder. The right one is when I press really hard, the line I should get with the settings I have (the standard black).

Here's a Wacom settings screenshot...

[Hervé]

There is a new bug with the lastest wacom drivers when Photoshop is running.
Quit Photoshop and your tablet should work fine.

[Tünde]

I haven't been running Photoshop today, so I guess it must be something else, but thanks for the tip

[Animark]

You could try to set the "Gevoeligheid van ount" to "Zacht". Now it seems to be too "krachtig".
Do you have the same problems in other softwares?

And what's happen wit the the "Apparaat". The Intuos 2 tablet don't use the "Grip Pen" of the Intuos 3. Maybe there is the problem. Try do deinstall the Intuos 3 Parts (or the hole drivers etc) and reinstall one for the intuos 2.

[Tünde]

It didn't have the same problems in other softwares...

I've been doing the file on another computer now and that one's doing fine. So I think it may have been that the computer I worked on the past few weeks thought the file was too big. There's a pretty heavy .mov file I'm rotoscoping in TVPaint so that might have been the problem...

[Fabrice]

There's a pretty heavy .mov file I'm rotoscoping in TVPaint so that might have been the problem...

I don't think it's linked with the stylus behavior, but btw, what is the the size of the .mov ?

[Paul Fierlinger]

Have you tried playing around with the Profile editor? It's the tiny icon under the letter P next to the word Size. Click on it which will bring up a menu; select Profile Editor. If you create a large bow out of the diagonal red line (either to the left or right; it makes no difference) you should make your stylus much more sensitive to pressure.