Re:Microsoft Surface Studio
by iamcreasy on Thursday October 27, 2016 @12:28AM
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Do you know if MS have improved the stylus? As far as I know surface's pen technology is inferior than Cintiq's pen.
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Sadly no, I'm consistently reverting back to my 21ux, the jitter of slow stylus movement drives me nuts on the surface pro 4
Could you elaborate just a bit? I was about to recommend some Surface flavor to a designer friend, I don't know about the jitter you mention.
This video shows it perfectly, while this is an SP3, the SP4 is based on the same tech : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA4iF00YHoA
On slow strokes, you can the tracking between key points looses accuracy as if the signal between points becomes weak.
I have tried everything I can to correct the issue like changing the stylus battery, 100 point calibration and driver updates. I'm pretty much convinced that N-trig just cannot be compared with Wacom (even the iPad Pro does a better job)
However, there are programs (ClipPaint and Mischief are my prime examples) have built-in mouse smoothing which greatly reduces the jitter but means the drawing action lags behind by a second or so.