I’ll give it a try, thanks! Someone actually did tell me to try the driver thing a few posts up.
The driver thing is an auto response from the Linux crowd. They type it and thumb their noses as they click “send.” The driver thing is an excellent way to wreck Windows. We know the driver is working because you can draw in the sub windows in Krita. You might go to the tablet maker’s website and look for similar complaints. Your pen strokes are being misinterpreted for some reason. Think about settings you might have changed when you weren’t using Krita. Also, some Windows settings are reset during updates.
@anon63336650 Three times in the past, a Windows update broke my Wacom tablet functionality and I fixed it by reinstalling the driver. Windows updates are known to do this.
Quite a few problem topics with tablets on this forum have been solved by reinstalling the driver or installing the newest driver.
If you don’t do it properly then there can be problems, as there can be with any process.
That’s just insulting to people’s intentions and motives.
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I agree with @AhabGreybeard. There are plenty of topics were drivers were the culprit. It’s reasonable to at least check if it’s the source.
I guess something worth mentioning (that I somehow forgot about) is that this is the first time I’ve plugged in my drawing tablet and used Krita on this laptop, so there’s a chance that all the settings have indeed defaulted, and that I might have to run through some setup videos on places like YouTube and see if those work.
That’s great that you’re already thinking of that. Until now, everyone had to assume that it would no longer work on the computer you were using. And the proposed solutions had this as the basis of the applied considerations.
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Yeah. Now I feel kind of bad, leading everyone on a false hunt for a solution to a problem that could have been solved a while ago if I just spent more time thinking about why the problem could have happened. At least, if anyone has a similar problem in the future, this thread/topic is just filled with a list of possible solutions.
If this is also the first time that you’ve ever plugged in your tablet to this laptop, have you installed the latest driver from the Ugee website (following the instructions in the manual) or had you used that tablet on that laptop previously with other painting problems with no problems?
I just took a look at Krita’s list of supported tablets. The Ugee models are listed as “unknown” or “broken.”
That list is pretty obsolete. Like I have said so many times before – Krita doesn’t actually implement anything that directly interfaces with tablet drivers. All that is in Qt. If the tablet driver isn’t too broken, if the configuration isn’t too messed up (and, remember, tablet drivers have per-application settings data, even if you haven’t created per-application profiles, so it works in X, but not in Y doesn’t prove that Y is broken), then all tablets should work.
If they don’t work, it’s 90% likely that the driver is broken and 10% likely that there’s some settings issue. It is NEVER a bug in Krita, because Krita does NOT have any code that directly talks to tablets.
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I wasn’t implying a bug in Krita. I was just saying the Ugee tablets’ ability to talk to Krita is “unknown” or “broken.”
I’ve used the same pen and tablet on programs like Paint3D and Microsoft Whiteboard without a problem, on the same laptop.
But that doesn’t mean the tablet will work with Krita. Art software makers publish lists of compatible tablets. It’s always a good idea to check it out before buying a tablet.
I’m not sure that it’s a tablet thing at all since it was mentioned the mouse doesn’t even work.
That’s important. The tablet is a specialised mouse. Maybe the mouse and tablet shouldn’t be connected at the same time. I don’t know laptops so this is just a guess.With the mouse, the tablet and the laptop’s finger pad sending signals to the system there might be internal confusion.
I’ll have to try that when I have some free time later today.
Good question, was the mouse one that’s connected to the tablet (one of those that only work when used on it) or a standard USB mouse directly connected to the laptop/pc?
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