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Multiple displays / tablet mapping nightmare!

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Hi guys,

Hoping someone can help here, have been fighting with this issue for days now…

Windows 7 x64, ZBrush 4r6, Trust 1200 V2 tablet (using some kind of Trust/Genius/Aiptek type Vista x64 drivers), three displays. The issue I’m having is with my tablet working area being spread across all 3 of my displays in ZBrush only.

For Windows, it’s perfectly fine - I can constrain the tablets working area to a single monitor, and the drivers even let me choose which monitor I’d like my tablet to work on. I can start up Photoshop and other applications and the working area remains the same - within a single monitor.

However as soon as I start up ZBrush, the tablets working area gets spread across all three monitors! As you can imagine, that’s completely unusable. And as soon as I close ZBrush, the tablet reverts back to using a single monitor again.

It’s like ZBrush has a setting somewhere that sets this specifically, as no other programs have this problem. If I disconnect one of my displays, it then only spans 2 monitors, which makes sense - ZBrush apparently knows how many displays I have. I could effectively disconnect my other displays, use a single monitor and have ZBrush work properly… which is hardly ideal.

I have tried various iterations of tablet drivers, and have reinstalled ZBrush. Is there an option somewhere to specify the screen mapping to be used by the tablet? It’s INFURIATING! Please help!

#2

I would guess in your tablet properties>where to map to for ZBrush usage? I’m only using 2 displays with a Wacom and it works great alongside my trackball mouse :wink:

#3

The tablet doesn’t have any Control Panel items itself, and actually I’ve just noticed the tablet menu within ZBrush is greyed out. I’ve made sure both of the tablet-related windows services are enabled too. :frowning:

#4

I’m willing to bet it has something to do with Zbrush only supporting wintab and you’re using some other drivers.

#5

First, make sure that you’re running the most current drivers from the tablet manufacturer’s website.

If that doesn’t resolve the issue then it would appear that the tablet doesn’t support WinTab, which is what ZBrush requires for tablets to work. Not all tablets are compatible with the WinTab protocol.