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Adjusting wintab section to the new behavior in v1.2.34
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@@ -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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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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## Steam
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