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- # WinTab
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- ` WinTab32.dll ` is a library/DLL/API used to communicate with your
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- stylus/tablet (Wacom, etc.). Sometimes, when we load this DLL the
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- program just hangs or doesn't work properly. We don't know why this
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- happen, but there are few users experimenting this (maybe a buggy
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- ` WinTab32.dll ` , or maybe a buggy Aseprite).
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- Sometimes the problem is solved reinstalling the driver, sometimes the
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- problem persists. As a first attempt, if you can execute Aseprite
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- correctly, you can disable the driver going to * Edit > Preferences > Experimental* :
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+ # Wintab
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+ Wintab (` WinTab32.dll ` ) is an ancient API created by Wacom to
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+ communicate tablet-like devices with Windows programs. Before Windows 8,
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+ this was the "de facto" standard used to access pressure
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+ 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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![ Don't load the WinTab driver] ( wintab/disable-wintab.png )
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+ ## Aseprite doesn't start
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If you cannot even start the program, you can execute Aseprite with
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the ` -disable-wintab ` parameter (available since Aseprite v1.2):
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"C:\Program Files\Aseprite\Aseprite.exe" -disable-wintab
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- This will bypass the ` WinTab32.dll ` loading process . Your stylus might
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- not work correctly, but at least Aseprite can be executed and used
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- with your mouse/trackpad.
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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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## Steam
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** SEE ALSO**
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+ [ Tablet] ( tablet.md ) |
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[ Troubleshooting] ( troubleshooting.md )
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