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I love the new SP4 pen, but I've noticed the pen pressure is not consistent. The biggest problem is that paint brush strokes in Photoshop don't taper smoothly when drawing. I tired using the SP4 pen on my Surface Pro 3 and it doesn't have any problem. Here is a screen capture of what I'm talking about.
Since the pen isn't the problem I'm assuming it's a calibration issue with the Surface Pro 4. I downloaded new Wintab drivers to see if that would solve the problem (got the idea from this thread about pen problems).
It's not just Photoshop. The actual Surface pen pressure app has the same problem. It's harder to see because the brush strokes are thinner, but there is a much faster tapering happening than there is on the Surface Pro 3. Here is a screen cap:
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Hey Everyone!
Thanks for all the feedback!
As some of you have already noticed, on July 14th, 2016, we released an update to the Surface Touch Driver that should significantly improve the pen tapering and pressure experience that this thread talks about.
For more information on the 7/14 update, you can go here.
If you experience any difficulty downloading or installing updates, please check the Troubles installing Surface and Windows updates article for assistance.
Thanks!
Zachary
Exactly
The tapering issue highlighted by the original poster, Brad Colbow, and Dave martins, it's 100% a software issue (the same pen works well on a SP3).
But the activation force required to register a stroke? I'm inclined to think that it's a hardware limitation, present in every ntrig pen. I hope to be wrong.
It is 100% sure that it is a software problem
so they just have to fix it
what I don't understand though is how comes that they still didn't solved it considering the budget and dev microsoft have...
seriously they have the source code of their driver so they should be able to fix it quite fast but it has been more than a month now
Microsoft moove your **** and do something!!!
I would like to know if we can expect a software update that will fix this or is it a hardware issue?
This is highly disappointing especially given that SP3 works just fine. I don't want to return this but will have to if this not resolved. I did a full art / pen test with a SP3 and assumed the SP4 would perform the same if not better, not worse and functionally unusable. Big bummer Microsoft!
