Disable 'hold' circle from wacom tablet in Photoshop CC 2020 without losing pen pressure functionality

Question

I have a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet. In Photoshop CC 2020 if I hold the pen down in one place for too long a circle forms and the pen cursor doesn't move until the circle is complete. It is quite annoying and gets in the way of using the pen properly.

I have found that if I disable 'Use Windows Ink' in the Wacom tablet properties this problem goes away, but so also does pen pressure functionality.

I have also tried another suggestion found via google which is to disable 'Show visual effects' in the Windows Ink settings but this makes no difference. I have tried the other settings there enabled and disabled one by one but nothing makes a difference.

Is there a way to remove this annoying circle behavior without losing pen pressure functionality in Photoshop CC 2020

Answer 1

1. To turn off the circle thing, open Control Panel and navigate to Hardware and Sound, then Change Pen Tablet Settings

   

   Then Pen Action > Press and Hold > Settings > turn off Enable Press and Hold. This will turn off the circle thing, but you still are going to get modifier keys under cursor, slowdowns and sometimes freezes — those are bugs of Windows Ink inside Photoshop.

2. If you're turning off Windows Ink, you need specify a different tablet driver for Photoshop — Wintab. For that

   • go to %appdata%\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2020\Adobe Photoshop 2020 Settings
   • create a new text file PSUserConfig.txt there
   • put this line in it: UseSystemStylus 0
   • restart Photoshop

   note that Adobe is going to abandon Wintab soon and if you're using the latest PS version (2020.1) there are already bugs in it because of that.