Comments on: Vista Hacks: Making My Wacom Serial Tablet Work

By: Tim Howland

Tim Howland — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:21:32 +0000

Sorry to use your blog for this, but I don’t know where else to start my search. I just acquired a UD-1212 in mint condition, but it came with the mac serial cable, not the PC serial cable. These are special serial cables as they connect to the power supply. If anyone can sell me one, I’m interested. Thanks!

By: zenia

zenia — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:31:03 +0000

I was able to get everything installed on Windows 7… but I am also not getting the cursor to move around.

By: zenia

zenia — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:26:48 +0000

I am trying the same thing… but since my computer does not have a serial port (gah!) I am using a serial-USB adapter. Do you know how to get that to work? I tried choosing both ’serial’ and ‘usb’ from the install menu and both say there is no tablet, and the serial option only searches ‘com3′.

By: brennbaer

brennbaer — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:20:49 +0000

just to avoid misunderstandings: the two tablets are not connected to the computer at the same time

By: brennbaer

brennbaer — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:28:37 +0000

hi everybody,
just installed Vtablet v.7.11beta for Win7 64bit from vtablet.com.
I tried a Wacom UD 1212-R and a GD 608-R.
Both are connected through a Logilink (Prolific-Chip) USB-to-Serial Adapter which is installed correctly.

Now the Vtablet driver seems to have installed somehow.
Its Tablet manager can be started.
When i move the pen over the tablet’s surface i see some numbers changing under “Port Interrupts” and “Packet Errors” in the “Driver area” of the “Status Tab”.
So apparently some signals are arriving.
But the problem is that the cursor does not move at all.

Does somebody else experience the same thing?
What is going wrong?

Many thanks in advance

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:50:51 +0000

Help… I’ve tried all the above and it does not work with my Win 7 64 bit. I have a Wacom GD0608R. I tried several drivers, with the last one being pro611-3 because it’s supports serial and works with 64 bit…NG Anyone have any luck?

By: Ail

Ail — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:48:11 +0000

That is not important, wacom tablets are not fruit or meat, are expensive work objects without expitre date than can work properly years and years. In fact I have a serial intuos GD at home and a new intuos 4 at work and I prefeer how my serial GD feels. I can´t believe a company like wacom can´t afford drivers for “old” tablets.

By: Aaron B. Hockley

Aaron B. Hockley — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:36:22 +0000

I worked for Wacom in 2001… at which point the UD series tablets had already been discontinued. They’re not “a few years old”… they’re at least 10 years old.

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:22:54 +0000

I have to agree with Frank (Oct. 26). It is inexcusable for a company to discontinue support for expensive, perfectly functional equipment that is only a few years old. It is pure greed, and I’m sure my mother would say “Just because Billy Gates does it doesn’t make it right!”

Haas anyone come up with a workaround to get a UD tablet to work under Win-7 64 bit?

By: Boug

Boug — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:02:00 +0000

It work for me too. UD-0608-R with windows 7 32bits. Yeah!
Just need to know now, how configure the pen buttons functions…