No Pressure Sensitivity in Krita. Wacom & Windows 7.

[Spock]

Need help... Krita Gemini isnt giving me any pressure sensitivity with my tablet. This is the only paint program that it doesnt work in. I have Artrage 4, Photoshop CC & Elements 11, Corel Painter, Sketchbook Pro, & Paint Tool SAI. It works perfect for all of those. I tried calibrating it with the pressure settings to make sure that wasnt the issue and it made no difference. I think it may be recognizing the pen & tablet as a mouse.. kind of what it acts like.

Also it feels like crap when I try to use the tablet with it. Probably just the pressure. But it feels so bad that I was doing better work with a mouse lol.

My specs:

Windows 7
8gb RAM
Dual Nvidia 280M in SLI (2gb VRAM)

My tablet is a Wacom Intuos Pen & Touch Medium

[DraccoonStu]

Can you tell me which brushes you've tried using in Krita? Not all use pressure (tho many do).
A good test might be the "Basic_tip_soft" brush, or "Airbrush_pressure" - if you open the brush settings, you'll see that each have a "size" option checked, and selecting this shows that it uses a pressure curve (although this is not the curve you'd edit).

There is a global curve setting in Krita under "Settings - > Configure Krita Gemini" and then choosing "Tablet Settings" on the left brings up the global pressure curve (which by default is linear). I'll ask around for more info - I know one person experienced problems with Krita if the tablet was not connected before Krita was started, for example?

[Spock]

Messaggio originale di DraccoonStu:

Can you tell me which brushes you've tried using in Krita? Not all use pressure (tho many do).
A good test might be the "Basic_tip_soft" brush, or "Airbrush_pressure" - if you open the brush settings, you'll see that each have a "size" option checked, and selecting this shows that it uses a pressure curve (although this is not the curve you'd edit).

There is a global curve setting in Krita under "Settings - > Configure Krita Gemini" and then choosing "Tablet Settings" on the left brings up the global pressure curve (which by default is linear). I'll ask around for more info - I know one person experienced problems with Krita if the tablet was not connected before Krita was started, for example?

When calibrating I just used the default round brush.. or I think it was default circle(same difference I think). I googled before hand to make sure on that note. And yes that is the calibration I was messing with the pressure curve, with no luck.

[Spock]

The issue still remains...

[Lauren]

Classic IT shot-in-the-dark suggestion, but... have you tried un-installing and re-installing the tablet drivers?
To be honest, I can't imagine what can be causing your issue.

EDIT: Oh, you might also want to try the older 2.8.3 Krita version available for download at krita.org for Windows and see if the same happens with that one, it might be a newer bug.

[DraccoonStu]

@rcknrolfender79
Could you try the following for me?
It will write lots of debug info for the pen, so we might be able to see what's going on.

1. Install DebugView from the official Microsoft site: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx
   
2. Start DebugView
   
3. Start Krita and open an empty document
   
4. Start logging tablet data by presing Ctrl+Shift+T, you will see a message box telling the logging is started
   
5. Use the pen to draw from the top left to bottom right of the canvas.
   
6. Go back to DebugView and save its output to a file.
   
7. Zip the file and email to me at kritasupport (at) hoardingshinies.com

Otherwise, the suggestion of reinstalling tablet drivers is something which one person did when they had trouble with their Cintiq (though this is not a problem I've experienced on my own Wacom tablets/screen)

Best,
Stuart

[SeveQ]

On 2.8.3 (git c49997b; x64) here. I tried the thing with the DebugView and this is what came out of it (//edit: by the way: same issue here, no pressure sensitivity; system configuration below):

[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 569,128" "pos: 499,31" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 570,130" "pos: 500,33" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 570,132" "pos: 500,35" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 571,134" "pos: 501,37" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 571,135" "pos: 501,38" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 572,137" "pos: 502,40" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 573,139" "pos: 503,42" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 574,142" "pos: 504,45" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 575,143" "pos: 505,46" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 575,145" "pos: 505,48" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 576,146" "pos: 506,49" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 580,154" "pos: 510,57" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 581,156" "pos: 511,59" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 582,158" "pos: 512,61" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 583,160" "pos: 513,63" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 584,162" "pos: 514,65" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 585,165" "pos: 515,68" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 586,167" "pos: 516,70" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 588,170" "pos: 518,73" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 589,172" "pos: 519,75" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 590,175" "pos: 520,78" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 592,177" "pos: 522,80" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 593,180" "pos: 523,83" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 595,183" "pos: 525,86" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 596,185" "pos: 526,88" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 597,188" "pos: 527,91" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 599,190" "pos: 529,93" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 600,193" "pos: 530,96" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 601,196" "pos: 531,99" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 603,199" "pos: 533,102" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 604,202" "pos: 534,105" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 606,205" "pos: 536,108" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 607,208" "pos: 537,111" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 609,211" "pos: 539,114" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 610,214" "pos: 540,117" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 612,217" "pos: 542,120" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 
[151232] "[       ] " "QEvent::MouseMove" "gpos: 613,221" "pos: 543,124" "button: 0" "buttons: 1" 

and so on...

//edit: System:

Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga (stock digitizer, WACOM drivers)
Windows 8.1 x64

Pressure sensitivity does work in many other applications.

[DraccoonStu]

@SeveQ - Hi, and great choice of machine (I'm running the same here).
Unfortunately I've not been able to encounter the problem you're encountering :(
You do meen the WinTab "feeldriver" from wacom.com/feeldriver ?

I think the version of the driver I have is 7.2.0-10 (the info panel for Wacom Pen in the control panel)
I'd read about some machines disabling the pen driver if the pen hadn't been removed, so there's a fringe chance that maybe you might have some succes by removing the pen before launching Krita? (maybe you're already doing this tho?)

Another thing to check is that the brush preset you're using is configured to use pressure - "Basic_circle" is a good one to try out.

Best Regards,
Stuart

[Sziggy]

I know that this is a 2 year old thread, but I just solved this problem for myself on windows 10. I am hoping to help others that find this thread and have the same problem.

Without touching your pen (leave it on your desk AWAY from the tablet) start krita with your mouse and keyboard. Once krita is open, press and hold shift on your keyboard. Then, pick up your pen and touch the tablet with it. This will open a pop-up called "Choose screen resolution". Selecting the first option and continuing solved the lack of pressure sensitivity for me. If this fails feel free to try the other options in the pop-up.

My initial problem was that I had pressure sensitivity on one monitor but not the one I wished to use. Eventually, I somehow added an odd offset that only happened to pen while on the canvas, but not while in the menus. This choose screen resolution fixed both of these problems for me. It seemed to be caused by my use of multiple monitors.

Best of luck solving whatever problem brought you here.

[Jarvgrimr]

Messaggio originale di Honor16:

I know that this is a 2 year old thread, but I just solved this problem for myself on windows 10. I am hoping to help others that find this thread and have the same problem.

You magnificent bastard! That worked for me, thank you so much for sharing your solution!

[Sari Spooks]

all wacom or bamboo tablits hade software update in januwary you can go to the wacom website and downlode it. i hade this issue and that fixed it right away.

[bat]

Messaggio originale di Honor16:

I know that this is a 2 year old thread, but I just solved this problem for myself on windows 10. I am hoping to help others that find this thread and have the same problem.

THANK YOU I JUST SPENT 2 HOURS FIXING KRITA AND THAT'S ALL?! ffs

[Spock]

I probably should have remembered to update this. But the error I was experiencing was probably pretty rare. My .exe registry was corrupt.. I had to download a noncorrupt .exe registry file and update mine. This happened to fix all issues I had with Krita, Photoshop, & Gimp. I was not getting any pressure sensitivity in any of those and the buttons on my tablet and pen did not work properly. Anyways hope this helps anyone that may have the same issue.



Also in my case.. On startup I would get an error saying "Windows cannot open wacom_tablet.exe" So that may be a good sign you are in the same boat. If you already tried restarting the wacom tablet service and reinstalled drivers without success...then you may want to try this.

[sketchbig]

Messaggio originale di Honor16:

I know that this is a 2 year old thread, but I just solved this problem for myself on windows 10. I am hoping to help others that find this thread and have the same problem.

Without touching your pen (leave it on your desk AWAY from the tablet) start krita with your mouse and keyboard. Once krita is open, press and hold shift on your keyboard. Then, pick up your pen and touch the tablet with it. This will open a pop-up called "Choose screen resolution". Selecting the first option and continuing solved the lack of pressure sensitivity for me. If this fails feel free to try the other options in the pop-up.

My initial problem was that I had pressure sensitivity on one monitor but not the one I wished to use. Eventually, I somehow added an odd offset that only happened to pen while on the canvas, but not while in the menus. This choose screen resolution fixed both of these problems for me. It seemed to be caused by my use of multiple monitors.

Best of luck solving whatever problem brought you here.

I have been trying to figure this out for months. This worked for me after reinstalling the drivers. Thank you sooo much!

[Ranquil]

Messaggio originale di Sziggy:

I know that this is a 2 year old thread, but I just solved this problem for myself on windows 10. I am hoping to help others that find this thread and have the same problem.

Without touching your pen (leave it on your desk AWAY from the tablet) start krita with your mouse and keyboard. Once krita is open, press and hold shift on your keyboard. Then, pick up your pen and touch the tablet with it. This will open a pop-up called "Choose screen resolution". Selecting the first option and continuing solved the lack of pressure sensitivity for me. If this fails feel free to try the other options in the pop-up.

Lemme just reply to this 1-year-old reply, because I really need help getting pen pressure to work on Krita again.

I started Krita with the mouse.
I pressed and held down Shift.
While I did that, I touched the tablet with the pen.

And the "Choose screen resolution" window didn't appear. Seriously, absolutely nothing out of the ordinary happened.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there another way to make the window appear?
I'm really desperate for help here, I haven't been able to draw with Krita for over a week because of this. Pen pressure works just fine with Photoshop though, so I know the problem has to be with Krita. .___.

[Mantis]

Messaggio originale di Ranquil:

Messaggio originale di Sziggy:

I know that this is a 2 year old thread, but I just solved this problem for myself on windows 10. I am hoping to help others that find this thread and have the same problem.

Without touching your pen (leave it on your desk AWAY from the tablet) start krita with your mouse and keyboard. Once krita is open, press and hold shift on your keyboard. Then, pick up your pen and touch the tablet with it. This will open a pop-up called "Choose screen resolution". Selecting the first option and continuing solved the lack of pressure sensitivity for me. If this fails feel free to try the other options in the pop-up.

Lemme just reply to this 1-year-old reply, because I really need help getting pen pressure to work on Krita again.

I started Krita with the mouse.
I pressed and held down Shift.
While I did that, I touched the tablet with the pen.

And the "Choose screen resolution" window didn't appear. Seriously, absolutely nothing out of the ordinary happened.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there another way to make the window appear?
I'm really desperate for help here, I haven't been able to draw with Krita for over a week because of this. Pen pressure works just fine with Photoshop though, so I know the problem has to be with Krita. .___.

Make sure that Krita is detecting the tablet by using DebugView as explained in the post above the log.

If it is, then make sure the preferences are set to the correct monitor on the tablet.

You could try unplugging, and re-plugging the tablet and uninstalling and reinstalling krita and the tablet drivers.

Also, make sure your tablet does not have any compatibility problems here: https://docs.krita.org/List_of_Tablets_Supported