Surface Pro 3 Wavy diagonal lines when inking

Anonymous
2014-07-12T07:29:27+00:00

I've noticed a problem with my surface pro 3 that I have not been able to work around.  When I draw a slow diagonal line, it comes out very wavy and jagged.  If I quickly draw a diagonal, it seems ok.  Has anyone else seen this, is there a fix for it?  seems to happen in every application, so it strikes me as potential hardware.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-01-17T12:25:50+00:00

    I requested a Surface Book from my company to use at the office instead of the workstation. It is really expensive here, like 2,5 times of my salary. Same problem appears here, I cannot draw smooth slow lines. I can't even return the PC here in Turkey as it was bought in Germany and MS does not have any hardware stores in Turkey.

    There is also another issue where the NVidia GPU is recognized as an 64MB memory card which makes it useless for me.

    I'm in a bad situation, I need a real solution.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-12-31T00:52:43+00:00

    Just wanted to add my complaints. I'm having the same issue with the Surface Book. And based on this video, the new Surface Studio also has this issue to a lesser extent:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28PW-L06WVE

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-04-09T21:14:04+00:00

    Same issues here with Surface 3 (not pro) and the new surface pen.

    My handwriting is nearly unreadable compared to my old surface pro with a wacom pen.

    Extreme latency and distorted letters...

    Seems, like there will be not improvement through new firmware ever...

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-03-22T17:59:47+00:00

    Thanks for the detailed reply

    so you are saying that X1 Yoga doubles as a decent graphic tablet in Terms of the pen functionality?

    I only use my tablet for handwriting in OneNote, so I can't say whether an artist would prefer the X1 Yoga. The reason I got the X1 Yoga is because I tried it at my local Microcenter and found the jitter on diagonal lines to be very minor. It is present, but much closer to Wacom EMR (traditional Wacom tablet tech) than to Ntrig. It is minor enough that I am totally satisfied with the writing experience and no longer pine for an update to my X201t with Wacom EMR.

    Lisa from MobileTechReview has a wonderful review of the X1 Yoga and another video specifically reviewing the pen experience. She prefers Ntrig over Wacom AES, citing parallax as her primary annoyance. I was never aggravated by parallax even on my X201t with Wacom EMR, so that didn't hold me back. If you have a local Microcenter, try out the X1 Yoga there. Best Buy has the ThinkPad Yoga 460 in stock (they call it the ThinkPad Yoga 14, I think), which has the same tech, but they don't keep styluses in stock, so you'd have to bring one.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-03-21T21:27:01+00:00

    Thanks for the detailed reply

    so you are saying that X1 Yoga doubles as a decent graphic tablet in Terms of the pen functionality?

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