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Running Old Wacom Tablets on Newer macOSes
23 November 2022
It's not news that Wacom has failed to supply drivers for many of its older (and not that old) Wacom tablets for more current operating systems. The 32-bit driver for our Intuos 2, for example, no longer functioned on Catalina.
Installer. Not 'created, tested or endorsed' by Wacom.
But Nicolas Sherlock has come to the rescue with his Wacom Driver Fix that patches Wacom's macOS drivers for Bamboo, Graphire, Intuos 1, 2 and 3 plus Cintiq first generation tablets.
Give this man a Nobel prize!
The github page where you can download the patched drivers also includes a code analysis showing exactly what he changed in each driver. It also includes some troubleshooting advice (minor stuff) should the fix not get your tablet up and running right away.
We installed the driver, enabled access through System Preferences (but had to relaunch Monterey twice to see both the Accessibility and Input Monitoring panel listings) and ran Wacom Tablet in System Preferences to set up our mouse and pen preferences.
Wacom Tablet. The old Intuos 2 on Monterey.
And there it was. Our old Intuos 2 running on Monterey. We nearly cried.
Just to confirm operations, we used the Wacom mouse on the tablet to edit and publish this story. No issues.