Graphics Tablets

OpenTabletDriver is strongly recommended instead of your manufacturer’s drivers.

  1. Uninstall your manufacturer’s driver from ‘Add or Remove Programs’; try searching for your manufacturer’s name, ‘ pen’, and ‘tablet’. There may be multiple entries for your tablet - remove them all.
  2. Use TabletDriverCleanup to remove left-over traces
  3. Install OpenTabletDriver
  4. Install OTD-IPC

OpenTabletDriver is only active while it is running; see OpenTabletDriver’s FAQ for advise on starting it automatically.

DO NOT install WinUSB/Zadig unless the OpenTabletDriver website says it is required for your specific tablet; if you install it when it is not needed, it will stop your tablet from working.

Using your manufacturer’s drivers

Use OpenTabletDriver instead if at all possible. If you use your manufacturer’s drivers, you should expect to be unable to bind buttons or erase in OpenKneeboard. This is a limitation of the manufacturer drivers, and can only be fixed by the manufacturer.

If you must use vendor drivers, wintab-adapter is the best way to use vendor drivers with OpenKneeboard, instead of OpenKneeboard’s built-in WinTab support. OpenKneeboard’s built-in WinTab support will be removed in a future version.

If your manufacturer driver supports setting the buttons to launch programs, you may find the remote controls useful.

The WinTab option in OpenKneeboard

This remains in v1.12 as I won’t usually remove features in bugfix releases. If you encounter any issues while using it, follow the updated advice above. It remains functional, depending on the quality of the manufacturer’s wintab driver.