Sijun Forums :: View topic - Has anybody hooked up 2 Wacom tablets at the same time?

arniemg · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 12:20 am

I was wondering if anybody has experience with multiple Wacom tablets. If I can get some feedback I'd appreciate it.

Here's the situation. I have 2 monitors, and only 1 Graphire2. This means that if I want to have the tablet proportional to my desktop, then I can only use the top (or bottom) half of my tablet. This means that 1 19" monitor only has the area of a quarter of the size of a 4x5 graphire2.

I have noticed that the drivers have a feature on the menu bar that says 'add tablet'.... so, maybe I can get another Graphire2, and use the drivers to allocate that area to the 2nd monitor?

Thanks in advance!

haohmaru · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 1:38 am

in your wacom settings you can restrict the active area for your wacom to one monitor alone. that would at least make it proportional to half your desktop.

i've never tried to add a second tablet though.
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kana · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 3:52 am

i heard that armageddon will come if you do that.
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eyewoo · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 5:23 am

The Intuos has a setting to use it in portrait mode... i.e. twisted 90 degrees. Don't know if the Graphire has the same capability, but if so, give it a try. That way the top half and bottom half can be totally used up while keeping aspect raitios accurate.

I use two monitors (stacked - not side-by-side) with my tablet in portrait mode. Works great.
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arniemg · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 9:15 am

Interesting suggestion eyewoo, but stacking my monitors isn't an option.

haohmar: That is what I'm going to have to do for now. To bad there isn't a shortcut to switch which monitor it is binded too...

crazybread · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 9:57 pm

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WOW, to think for a second... Its a great idea, that way I could paint with two of my feet and play nintendo with my heands. Talk about multi tasking Very Happy

. ...just kidding! (I couldn't resist) I too haven't heard of anyone succeeding at that. Could it even be done? well anyway those wacom and sony people should invent a double-width monitor and a super stretched wacom board to go along with it. It would be nice if it cost under 3000$ too. AHHHhhhhh Cool

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glody · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 1:56 am

well never tried the 2 tablet thing....however i have tried to play some first person shooters with the wacom tablet....and after it was configured....it honesty wasnt that bad at all!! lol Very Happy

arniemg · Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2003 6:18 pm

I just purchased a refurb. Graphire2. It ships on Monday. I will post in this forum what I think about the setup if you guys want to hear...

I will bind tablet 1 to monitor 1, and tab 2 to mon 2. It should work out pretty nice!

YVerloc · Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 7:48 pm

When I installed my Cintiq, I left my Intuous II installed at first. Not armageddon, but close. So I wouldn't recommend it. Not only will it not work but it will wreak almost irrevocable havoc on your sys.

After I concluded that it clearly was not coing to work, I tried to get rid of one of the tablets, and that's when I realized that I'd bought myself a whole world of pain. It wasn't enough to just unhook the uneeded hardware after shutdown and reboot. It wasn't enough to unistall all Wacom drivers and then only install the new Cintiq driver. Oh no. It required a super duper extra special three hour long fiddly unistall, including several calls to Wacom support. And after that, I basically got my machine working like it used to before my disastrous experiment (except with my new tablet).

Wacom's never been particularly strong about coopertaing with other devices, even other Wacom stuff. I got my first Wacom tablet in 95, and it lasted about three weeks before becoming a mousepad. Why? It hated mice. The same fate befell my second tablet. So my advice to you is: don't tempt the Wacom voodo demons!

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arniemg · Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 10:15 pm

This is an email discussion between Dan at wacom tech support and me. I hope that this might benefit somebody out there, it helped me out!

Me:

waylon · Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 10:41 pm

I have 14 tablets running on my computer, all running smoothly. Only 3 are intuoses, but I use them for most of my work. I have one covering my entire desktop area (spanning my five monitors), and one for each of the 23" trinitrons. I have a cintiq set up, and I've placed Photoshop's color palette in that section of screen space - works really well, almost like using a real artist's palette! Then I've got a bunch of graphires for specific screen areas where I regularly paint. Works pretty well, but you need a lot of space if you're going to attempt this!

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arniemg · Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 11:09 pm

waylon: crazy setup! i'd love to see a photo!

YVerloc · Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 12:00 pm

yeah yeah Waylon. Isn't April 1st still a few months away? 14 tablets. pshaw. Opps, gotta go. One of my 300 phones is ringing. Hope they stay on the line long enough for me to figure out which one.
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