Trying out Krita and I enjoy it but I think it is treating my tablet as a mouse. It doesn't track my pen when hovered above the tablet I have to press down and drag to move it. This creates unwanted lines and effects accuracy. Is there a way to force a tablet into pen mode if its drivers doesn't give that option like Wacom does? Or maybe a way to force Krita into treating my tablet as a pen?

I have windows 10 and a ugee M1000L tablet.

I'm sorry, but the drivers for your tablet are broken. We cannot do anything but work with the information the drivers give us, and if the information is correct, Krita will work correctly. And no, it's no use to say "but all other applications work" -- it's still a bug in the driver. Ugee is known to be _ghastly_ when it comes to the quality of their drivers, and they don't implement the specification, but tweak their "code" until it works with Photoshop, and that doesn't mean the driver is correct.

I sort of thought it was an issue with the drivers, I have already had problems before with their drivers I lost pressure sensitivity so I thought it would be smart to uninstall the tablet drivers and reinstall them, I Kept getting the error " system has detected other tablet drivers. you need to uninstall all other tablet drivers before installing tablet driver " The only way I could find to fix it was to completely reinstall windows.

I plan on upgrading my tablet soon to either the Parblo Coast 10, or the Artisul D10. Any idea if either of those are more compatible with Krita and have better drivers?

Probably not. All these obscure drawing tablets are based on the same chipset and the same familiy of drivers. Anyway, Windows itself is rather dumb for not allowing people to install drivers for multiple tablets -- this is also a real problem for us because once you've installed a genius or a monoprice tablet driver or something similar it's all but impossible to really remove it and install a huion or wacom driver and have a system that allows testing. We'd need a separate PC for every tablet we've got access to! And that means in practice that we only test with Huion and Wacom.

Is there anyway for second parties to write better drivers for tablets, like a universal tablet driver? I mean they all do they same exact thing can the hardware really be that different between any model?

You can't test different tablets in a virtual pc environment?

a) Nobody has done the work -- for Linux, there's the digiment project, but the maintainer has downed tools, because not only the drivers are buggy, but the hardware itself too!

b) No, while it's technically possible to use a tablet in a vm, it adds an extra layer of complication, so you never know where things go wrong...

To my initial issue my tablet works fine with Krita except for the program treating it as though its in mouse mode is there a way to force Krita to recognize my tablet as a pen instead of a mouse? I have used a program before , not sure if it was Photoshop or something else that allowed the program to decide whether the tablet was treated as a mouse or pen.