@@ -7,12 +7,16 @@ information from tablets created by Wacom and other brands. Since
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Windows 8, Microsoft introduced a new official API: the Pointer
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API/Windows Ink.
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- Sometimes, when we load this DLL the program just hangs or doesn't
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- work properly. You might solve this reinstalling drivers or restarting
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- Windows. If the problem persists one first attempt would be to use the
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- Pointer API from [ Tablet options] ( tablet.md ) , or disabling Wintab
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- usage from * Edit > Preferences > Tablet* (or * Edit > Preferences >
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- Experimental* in old versions):
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+ Since ** Aseprite v1.2.34** (and ** v1.3-beta12** ), as we've received a
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+ lot of crash reports related to buggy third-party ` WinTab32.dll ` s,
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+ we've switched to the Windows Pointer API by default. (The Wintab
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+ option is still available from the [ Tablet options] ( tablet.md ) .)
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+ In previous versions of Aseprite, we tried to load this Wintab library
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+ initially, but it could cause the program to crash randomly. Sometimes
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+ you can solve this reinstalling drivers, restarting Windows, using the
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+ Pointer API from [ Tablet options] ( tablet.md ) , or just disabling Wintab
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+ usage from * Edit > Preferences > Tablet* (or from * Edit > Preferences > Experimental* in older versions):
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![ Don't load the WinTab driver] ( wintab/disable-wintab.png )
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@@ -25,7 +29,7 @@ the `-disable-wintab` parameter (available since Aseprite v1.2):
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This will avoid loading ` WinTab32.dll ` file. Your tablet might not
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work correctly, but at least Aseprite can be executed and used with
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- your mouse/trackpad (or again, you can try the [ Windows Pointer API] ( tablet.md ) ).
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+ your mouse/trackpad (or you can try the [ Windows Pointer API] ( tablet.md ) ).
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