Need stylus recommendations for Acer UT222Q touchscreen monitor

y0urdemiseNC

Hey, just bought an Acer UT222Q touchscreen monitor. I needed a touch screen for college, and I also may need a stylus. I bought a stylus for it, but it works with the performance of a squishy potato. Any recommendations for a stylus? I really don't like the idea of playing minesweeper with random purchases of various styluses.

Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/727920/stylus-for-ut222q

Hey y0urdemiseNC 👋

If your laptop is already touchscreen-ready internally, it might be worth checking whether its drivers are fully updated before you lean entirely on your new UT222Q for stylus input. Whether the touch panel is built into your laptop or an external monitor, proper HID, digitizer, and graphics drivers are essential—without them, even a high-end stylus can feel like you're drawing with a potato 🥔.

As for stylus choice: the UT222Q doesn’t seem to support active pen protocols like AES or EMR, so if you're testing generic capacitive styluses, results will vary wildly. That squishy response you’re seeing is common when using rubber-tip pens on capacitive-only screens.

🔍 A few tips:

• Double-check Acer’s driver portal to confirm your monitor drivers are up to date: https://www.acer.com/drivers
• If your laptop has touch built-in, try comparing input quality between the internal and external screens. It helps isolate whether the stylus is underperforming or the monitor is just limited to basic touch.
• Capacitive styluses with hard fine-point tips (rather than rubber domes) tend to give crisper input on touch-only screens—but they're still no match for a true active digitizer.

If you confirm that your laptop lacks a touchscreen, then the UT222Q is your main input surface, and driver tuning plus stylus selection becomes even more important.