
#Install wacom intuos 3 serial
On behalf of the apparent army of serial 9x12 owners who apparently take too good care of our tools for them to break down, and don't feel compelled or don't have the means to upgrade to the newer models of tablets. The value of your contribution with this solution cannot be overstated. Hamms, if you're still following this thread, buddy, i gotta tell ya, heh. Thanks to everyone in this thread for helping me out. I can confirm that a Wacom serial tablet works on Windows 7 64-bit without using a USB converter. When I tried installing it first with Vista compatibility mode, the tablet did not
#Install wacom intuos 3 install
(Be sure to install it using Windows 2000 compatibility mode first. You the functionality of the Windows 2000 patch with the properties shortcut of the Windows Vista patch.
#Install wacom intuos 3 drivers
Double click on the file to install the drivers again and restart. Not.) Right click again on the Driver file and change compatibility mode to 'Windows Vista' (leave the 'Run program as administrator' box checked) and apply the changes. (If you have it, then congratulations, you're done and can ignore the rest of this post. When the computer started up again the tablet was working, however, there was no 'Wacom Tablet Properties' in the start menu and I couldn't find it elsewhere.

Right-click on the driver file and set compatibility mode to 'Windows 2000' and check the box for 'Run program as administrator'. Because the computer recognized the device, I didn't have to make any changes to the registry.)Ĥ. (At this point the tablet showed up in 'Device Manager' under 'Other devices' as 'WACOM GD'. Shut down the computer and connect the tablet to the serial port and plugged in tablet power supply.ģ. and uninstall all 'Wacom' and 'Tablet/Pen Tablet' entries using 'Control Panel>Uninstall a program'. Before starting, download the international driver version 6.10.6. Here is the stream lined version of what I did.ġ. You can also get it by searching the European Wacom site it won't appear in the Americas Wacom site.) Intuos GD-0608-R (connected to serial port.)ĭriver 6.10.6 (pro610-6_int.exe) (The one linked in Scherer's post. And I'm happy again can will go to Windows 7 with my installation. Then I've installed the wacom driver and rebooted.


You found it at the wacom if you search for Vista drivers of Intuos (and not Windows 7, these are newer than 6.10). Then I downloaded the latest Intuos driver in version 6.10.x, all newer drivers don't have the serial driver support integrated. It finds the WACOM device, but no driver. Now i plugged in the power cable of my Intuos board and refreshed the hardware manager. (Notice: in regedit you don't enter the quotes).

So I started regedit.exe opened the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE and added the key "Tablet" and then added a new string "PnPTablets" and then entered the value ",COM3". Now Windows 7 tells me which COM port it uses for that device. I first removed the power cable from the Wacom so that only the Usb-to-Serial cable is found. I found out that the driver is a Prolific usb-to-serial and I had to look for a working version in Windows 7. I first had to install the correct driver for this. My DELL Insprion 530 does not have a real serial port, so I use a Skymaster USB to serial cable. Yes, my GD-0912-R really works on Windows 7.
