Pen Pressure in CS4 Vista 64-bit

Even through all other applications on my PC were able to respond to tablet pen pressure, CS4 running in Vista 64-bit did not. I was able to get the pressure to work when executing the 32-bit photoshop.exe found in C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Photoshop.exe. I'll continue to use the 32-bit program until Adobe solves this in the 64-bit version.
It was good of Adobe to automatically install both a 32-bit and a 64-bit version of the program.

[high pitched Flanders] aaarrrrgghhhhh [/high pitched Flanders]
..>cough<..sorry about that.. :)
cs4 x64 in vista x64 does respond to pen pressure....have you installed the new drivers...are you using a Wacom?
Did you miss the massive thread about it?

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