Sep 22, 2017 - new Wacom driver for Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra - not until October 2017! Main System: Mac Pro running OS X: 10.10.5| 3.8GHz i7| 32GB. Dec 17, 2017 - I recently purchased wacom intuos pro PTH-651 and my mac is mid 2012 with OS X Yosemite. OS X Yosemite (10.10.5). Wacom tablet lags.
I have on old Wacom (PTZ-631W) which I believe is from the Intuos 3 series. I’ve been using this tablet without issues on my iMac which is running Yosemite 10.10.5. Has anyone had experience or seen direct confirmation of these older tablets running in Mac OS Sierra?
My searches have yielded results that were pretty much all from the overall problems with Sierra that Wacom was having after the new OS was released. It’s therefore difficult to tell whether any mentions of Intuos 3 tablets with Sierra were specific to that generation of tablet or inclusive of the Overall problems Wacom was having with the new OS. I’m now in a bit of a quandary.
I’m a Capture One 8 user and would like to upgrade to C1 10. However, Capture One 10 requires a minimum of El Capitan to run. I’d therefore be facing an upgrade of my machine to Sierra. The latest Intuos 3 driver on Wacom’s site is listed as ”MacOSX - Driver 6.3.15-3 (10.9x - 10.11x)”.
I’m obviously concerned that an OS upgrade could render my tablet useless if the Wacom driver doesn’t work on Sierra. Billiam29 wrote: nicolas guilbert wrote: My intuous 5 touch got USB connection problems lately and I reverted back to my intuous 3, same model as you stated. On OS X Sierra. I had just to download a previous driver version and it works fine on sierra.
Thanks for the info. Do you happen to know if the older driver you reverted to was v6.3.15-3? Since my post here, I found a couple of instances of Wacom Europe telling people that this driver version will work with an Intuos 3 and Sierra. Yes it is WacomTablet6.3.15-3.dmg that I downloaded 10 days ago and it works on Sierra. Pau Kokura Design wrote: I downgraded to El Capitan as I needed to work, but now i'm trying again. I will install Sierra, remove drivers, install Driver 6.3.15-3, and see.
Since I started this thread, I just wanted to report in that I haven't had any issues with the 6.3.15-3 driver and my Intuos 3 under Sierra. For reference, my system was a clean install of 10.12.4 subsequently updated to 10.12.5.
To be honest though, I'm not a terribly sophisticated Wacom user. I only use two or three buttons on the tablet and almost never the popup menu. If you choose to do a clean install of Sierra, keep in mind that your Wacom preferences will be restored with your user account should you restore the account from backup with Migration Assistant. I doubt this would affect the type of issue you're having but I wanted to mention it in case your intention is to start from scratch where the Wacom is concerned. Billiam29 wrote: I have on old Wacom (PTZ-631W) which I believe is from the Intuos 3 series.
I’ve been using this tablet without issues on my iMac which is running Yosemite 10.10.5. Has anyone had experience or seen direct confirmation of these older tablets running in Mac OS Sierra?
My searches have yielded results that were pretty much all from the overall problems with Sierra that Wacom was having after the new OS was released. It’s therefore difficult to tell whether any mentions of Intuos 3 tablets with Sierra were specific to that generation of tablet or inclusive of the Overall problems Wacom was having with the new OS. I’m now in a bit of a quandary. I’m a Capture One 8 user and would like to upgrade to C1 10. However, Capture One 10 requires a minimum of El Capitan to run. I’d therefore be facing an upgrade of my machine to Sierra.
The latest Intuos 3 driver on Wacom’s site is listed as ”MacOSX - Driver 6.3.15-3 (10.9x - 10.11x)”. I’m obviously concerned that an OS upgrade could render my tablet useless if the Wacom driver doesn’t work on Sierra. I use my Intuos 3 Medium on my 2016 MBP with MacOS Sierra with no issues. Coarpa wrote: dreamery wrote: Anyone still having problems with Intuos 3 on macOS10.12.x Sierra. I spent days installing/reinstalling countless Wacom tablet drivers for my Intous 3 on macOS10.12.6 Sierra. Most of the drivers were the latest versions.
None of them recognised my tablet stating, 'A supported device was not found on the system' Finally WacomTablet6.3.8-2 worked. Thank you, thank you after some days installing/reinstalling I found your advise and it's working!!! Thank you so much Dreamery, 6.3.8-2 work on my MBP running Hig Sierra.
I was getting desperate I almost trash my nutos 3 to go buy a new tablet. THANK YOU FOR SHARING!
Apple has announced 10.13 High Sierra will be released September 25th. Wacom is currently working on a new driver update to support the new operating system. The new Wacom driver will be ready by late October at the latest. Due to nature of the changes in High Sierra, the existing Wacom driver for 10.12 will not work. To continue to use your tablet uninterrupted, Wacom suggests not to upgrade to 10.13 until the new driver is released. Once released the driver update will appear in the Wacom Desktop Center and will be posted on the Wacom driver page.
So, Mac users, don't update to Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra before Wacom releases the new driver in late October (and I would wait a bit to read user feedback reports on whether the new driver actually works!) Happily still using El Capitan here. What I don't understand is how it has taken Wacom so long to come up with a compatible driver for 10.13 High Sierra, because the beta version of 10.13 has been available to developers for months now. Unless Apple made some last minute unexpected change to the final release version of 10.13, which is making Wacom have to completely rewrite the code for the drivers. It's frustrating that every Mac OS update seems to break something. I recall reading that High Sierra was intended as more as a 'bug fix and feature enhancement' minor update, not a major change. But who knows? At least Wacom gave some warning about the issue, even if it was only a few days before 10.13 was officially released.