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>> When I run animator studio it changes the response of my Calcomp drawing board II graphics pad from the absolute mode to a wild relative mode that is unusable. Even after I exit Animator studio this problem remains until I restart windows. Please let me know if there is some setting I can change to correct this. None of my other graphical applications (photoshop, painter, etc.) have this problem. << i spoke to Calcomp about this at AEC Systems… they have not written a specific driver for AStudio (in fact, AStudio was a surprise to them), and the techies there at the show suspected the Wintab driver or altenrative driver as a possible culprit. i have used DrawingBoard and DrawingPad with AniPro and AStudio with reliability only using the CCMOUSE or similar mouse emulation which (as you say) is a rather "wild" relative mode. However, Calcomp "authorities" are anxious to jump on this (especially since they have those big 12×12 pressure sensitive tablets which would be a godsend for those of us that to traditional freehand animation), so it may be soon that we see direct support from calcomp for this problem. Most of the tablet support i've seen for AStudio has been severely (in fact dangerously so) focused on WACOM only. WACOM's a great little board, but it's size is a real minus for larger animation methods. keep in mind that Calcomp has that new pressure sensitive stylus for their 12×12 pads too… you may wish to approach AStudio product manager for petition of better support. this kind of thing drives development of drivers. 😉 you have my vote as i'm an old timer on calcomp products. -dave