TSG: Diamond pointer on Windows

Overview

You may occasionally encounter a situation when using your drawing tablet on a Windows computer, that the pointer shows as a small diamond shape instead of what you would expect.

Cause

This is fundamentally a tablet driver issue.

When you see the small diamond pointer, it means that Windows is not using your tablet driver. Instead Windows is using its built-in PNP driver support. More here: Windows PNP support

This could be because

  • You have not installed your tablet driver

  • Your tablet driver is taking longer than expected to load

  • Your tablet driver has crashed

Steps to fix

  • Make sure you have the tablet driver installed

  • Uninstall it and reinstall if necessary

Notes

  • This is NOT a failure of the tablet hardware or pen hardware

  • MacOS does not have this problem

If you can't solve this problem, contact customer support.

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