Clip Studio Paint

This guide should work with all versions of CSP as of July, 2025

Install Bottles

Bottles is a program which allows you to run wine instances inside a container ('bottle'). You can install it from your distro's repos or install the Flatpak.

Setting up the bottle

Go into Main Menu (the hamburger menu at top right) > Preferences

Runners > Caffe > Download caffe-9.2

Create new bottle with caffe-9.2

Go into bottle settings and change Windows version to Windows 8.1

Installing CSP

Now download CSP. Make sure you select the Windows version. Then go into Bottles and run the CSP installer.

A shortcut to ClipStudio will appear. Launch this and from Clip Studio, launch Clip Studio Paint like you would normally.

Once this is done, CSP should work with pressure out of the box with WinTab.

OpenTabletDriver Mapping Fix

If you use OpenTabletDriver's display mapping, you can only draw on a portion of the canvas view that OTD maps your tablet to. For me, OTD maps my tablet output to my main monitor while my compositor maps it to all the displays. Instead, the

To fix that, go into File > Preferences > Tablet and change the settings to match whatever is in this screenshot.

Conclusions

Yeah, works alright.

Last updated