Spot Removal Tool w. Click & Drag & Wacom Pen not showing area painted over until pen released

SOLUTION found a few minutes after I posted this!
Went into Wacom Tablet Properties and adjusted Tip Feel to Soft and Tilt Sensitivity to High.
I am having the following issue in LR 5 using Wacom Intuos 3 pen (Win 7 Pro, 16 GB RAM, Nvidia GTX760, i7 3820 3.6 processor):
When using the Wacom pen to click and drag to heal a spot, the area I draw does not show the path (doesn't paint white) while I am drawing it. Only after I have drawn the area to clone/heal and released the pen does it show. Click & drag works fine with a regular mouse and with the Wacom mouse. I have penflicks turned off in Windows.
Anyone else experiencing this? Any suggestions?
Message was edited by: marzo19 - Solution found.

Hi,
Many thanks for this tip. I'd actually abandoned using my wacom pen&touch when using any of the adjustments (graduated filter, spot and brush) because of lag etc.
I don't have the tilt sensitivity on my tablet, but ajdusting the tip feel made a major improvement. ... the mouse still works better though.
I actually wonder just how many of the 'lag issues' being experienced are actually about mouse/tablet interaction.
When I quit lightroom, my tablet seizes up for about 20 seconds - seems like a driver reloading or something.
hans

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