Which option defines the brush pressure sensitiviness?

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Yes my pen has pressure sensitivity. And yes the tip is slightly springy!

At least from screnshots your pen produces the same behaviour - even small stepping in the ends of the brushstrokes (but it appears when I reduced tablet's pressure sensitivity to min value).

if you save an oil brush preset with one set of settings, and another oil brush preset with a different set of settings - i.e. a pressure-responsive and non-pressure responsive brush - artrage will remember those settings.

Oh, that explains a lot, thanks. But I noticed that's true if my tablet driver magic option `support TabletPC` enabled (it enabled by default). But if this option is off, the AR does not reproduce pressure sensitivity despite the stylus settings you specified.

there's a wacom-specific pen tapering issue, the shoelace stroke, which is particularly bad with some optional wacom pens

Yeah, probably the pen I use has the same issue, although it's Huion pen.

but artrage does not exhibit this problem for me. other apps often do.

Which pen do you use? It would be interesting if you post AR screenshot with your oil brush strokes with pressure-responsive option on.