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Aiptek 14000u = Waltop media tablet
Well… I bought Aiptek 14000u graphics tablet mainly to speed up my work with textures. The tablet is quite fine actually, sleek design and good pen. Pretty good bang for your buck!
Bur the thing i had problems with was that the damn tablet lacks support for two monitor setup… It was pretty frustrating. I tried everything to get it to work, from re-installing windows (tried out Windows 7, which is nice by the way) to manually editing the driver files. No luck with that.
After about a week I decided to do some extra research on the subject. It turned out that the damn media tablet was actually a Taiwanese Waltop tablet. Luckily, the Waltop site had more recent drivers to download than the Aiptek site. I installed the Waltop drivers and a new menu popped up in the tablet setting. This new menu was about working area! I could set the tablet to work on the screen I wanted it to work on : )
So the morale of the story is don’t spent days trying to get your Aiptek tablet to work with your two monitors! Just get the drivers for the real product you bought, meaning Waltop media tablet.
Oh, and do not bother with mailing Aiptek support…
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about 10 months ago
Hi
.. could you please explain where exactly you found that new menu? I’m on one monitor right now, but I probably will buy another one as I need it for work. I have the MediaTablet 14000U and I contacted aiptek for support.. they helped me and sent me the 3.43 release of the driver – but there are still some issues I have.
My issue was not fixed though: if I make the screen turn 90° to any site (so it’s not landscape format anymore, but upright) – the tablet recognition surface doesn’t rotate as well (see here for an illustration: http://www.abload.de/img/illustratingpicturedqy2.jpg) – that’s what I’d expect though. I’d expect the surface to turn as well…
So yeah .. the tablet is cheap (or cheapter than Wacom) after all – can’t expect it to have all the features .. but still :X kinda bugs me..
. Thank you.
If you have a solution or at least know where to find that menu for dualview (or does it only appear once I connect 2 screens?) – it’d be awesome if you could drop me a line
divStar.
about 9 months ago
Sorry, I don’t hve a clue about that
But the menu popped up at the taskbar of Windows.
about 9 months ago
What does the menu look like? Where is it exactly? I have tried the Waltop drivers (3.46) and Genius drivers (dunno the version), but there has been nothing new in the taskbar compared to the Aiptek drivers. In windows 7 the tablet is almost good without the drivers and it’s possible to restrict the active area to only one monitor, but then pressure sensitivity doesn’t work in Photoshop (though it works with msn messenger so the problem seems to be PS related).
about 9 months ago
Wolan ,the tablet works excelent in Photoshop CS3 and even better in CS4, but you have to activate “pressure sensitivity” from “brush menu”(read HELP).The truly performance is unleashed in Corel Painter 11. The great minus is the absence of “tilt” feature.
If you want to use this tablet with 2 screens you have to connect 2 monitors.The way you use it, depends and can be set from the grafic card drivers.
I use 3.46 Waltop drivers and I my grafic card is Radeon HD3850.