I am using the current build of Krita ( 3.1.2- updated as well) and I seem to be losing pen pressure daily. I uninstalled and then reinstalled and the pressure came back, but as soon as I closed the program and opened it the next day, pen pressure was gone. I am using a Wacom Intuos Draw tablet and it works fine with pressure in every other program, is it just not compatible with Krita? This is getting very frustrating because I do not want to have to reinstall Krita everyday to have pressure, and I cant really draw without it. It makes things very difficult. Krita is my favorite program and I would hate to have to switch to a new one.

Does anyone have any fixes for this problem??

a) Reinstalling krita won't make a difference. That just replaces bits on your disk with identical bits. Uninstalling Krita doesn't reset krita's configuration. For resetting krita's config, see the faq: https://docs.krita.org/KritaFAQ#Resetti ... figuration

b) whatever other application do or do not is irrelevant. The people working on those other applications often get reports going like "Oh, but Krita works, so it must be your application". That's wrong as well.

c) If krita doesn't see your tablet, your tablet drivers are broken, somehow. That's the only possibility. Of course Krita supports Wacom tablets, it's what most people are using, day in, day out. If the wintab32.dll is in the right place, and isn't missing dependent dll's, Krita will be able to open it and use it. It's really that simple: Krita tries to find the dll in the system location, opens it if found and asks for a tablet context. There is nothing strange about that.

d) If reinstalling Krita actually does make a difference, weird as it would be, it must be something like some "security" software you have running buggering Krita's files for some weird reason. Never, ever have any anti-virus or security software other than that provided by Microsoft (and even that is junk).

In the end, you're not experiencing a bug in Krita; your system is in a weird state. That happens a lot with Windows, though... The only fix is to fix your system, I'm afraid.

boudewijn wrote:a) Reinstalling krita won't make a difference. That just replaces bits on your disk with identical bits. Uninstalling Krita doesn't reset krita's configuration. For resetting krita's config, see the faq: https://docs.krita.org/KritaFAQ#Resetti ... figuration

b) whatever other application do or do not is irrelevant. The people working on those other applications often get reports going like "Oh, but Krita works, so it must be your application". That's wrong as well.

c) If krita doesn't see your tablet, your tablet drivers are broken, somehow. That's the only possibility. Of course Krita supports Wacom tablets, it's what most people are using, day in, day out. If the wintab32.dll is in the right place, and isn't missing dependent dll's, Krita will be able to open it and use it. It's really that simple: Krita tries to find the dll in the system location, opens it if found and asks for a tablet context. There is nothing strange about that.

d) If reinstalling Krita actually does make a difference, weird as it would be, it must be something like some "security" software you have running buggering Krita's files for some weird reason. Never, ever have any anti-virus or security software other than that provided by Microsoft (and even that is junk).

In the end, you're not experiencing a bug in Krita; your system is in a weird state. That happens a lot with Windows, though... The only fix is to fix your system, I'm afraid.

My tablet drivers are up to date as well and I don't even have any "security" system on my laptop but it gets scanned regularly. It's clean. It worked fine for months its all of a sudden acting up. It worked fine just until about when I updated Krita to the newest build so I'm thinking that has something to do with it.

Sorry, but no... That's just not possible. There must be something else going on.

Maybe the 'Use Pen Pressure' button has been accidentally pressed or changed during the fresh installation?
This button is between the 'Save' button and the 'Gradients' buttons, just under the View menu item. Is this button affected in any way when you notice that the pen pressure isn't working anymore?

as far as i know the default config for krita has neither the "use pen pressure" nor the "save" button in the toolbar. you have probably added them yourself some time ago with Settings -> Configure Toolbars?

@timotimo - yes, I did, I remember now. Thank you for reminding me.

I added them because I had no pen pressure sensitivity at all. After advice from here, I added them from Settings -> Configure Toolbars and thus made my pen pressure work.

However, it seems that artemispark has a different problem. He could have a look at it though, just in case.

timotimo wrote:as far as i know the default config for krita has neither the "use pen pressure" nor the "save" button in the toolbar. you have probably added them yourself some time ago with Settings -> Configure Toolbars?

This worked perfectly for me! Thank you so much!! It took me a while to figure out how to show the button!

For anyone else stuck on this problem I'll upload the images to my website (asianoble.co) thanks to Timo!!!

Man KDE should make it easier to donate - I want to make a donation with PayPal but it keeps prompting me to put in my card! Any other way?

I don't think we can make it easier to donate: https://krita.org/en/support-us/donations/ -- if it's paypal that's asking you for a credit card numer, maybe try a direct bank transfer.