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Hello everybody, I’ve spent the last 2 days browsing the forum searching for a solution to my problem: I’ve found a lot of suggestions, but none of them works. I use X3 to modify PDF files on a Pentium 4 with 2,39 GHz and 512 MB RAM. I have 2 swap disks 1,5 GB each and the max RAM usage in “Options / Memory” is set to 50%. Each morning CCleaner cleans up the system and I regularly perform a deep cleaning using the Computer's resources option. Till a couple of days ago X3 was working fine, but suddenly it becomes incredibly slow: it takes up to 20 minutes to open a new file or a 0,53 MB one and it takes the same time to save or close. I’ve open the same file on another machine and it takes 5 seconds (this other machine is not powerfully then the other one and uses just 1 swap disk). Following various suggestion I've found in the forum, I deleted al the saved views, reduced the font number from 1.000 to 220, disabled bitmaps and graphic object compression, disabled texture and extrusions saving, used the wx_PatchDraw macro and disabled the 2 CLOL options, cleaned the colour docker, deleted unused styles. All of this where working fine before, and infect the problem is still existing. There is one more amazing fact: I open a PDF (single page with 3 JPG 2,2 MB total and 43 lines graphic text) in X3, and on one machine it takes ca. 20 seconds to open and save and the size of the file is 2.6 MB. On the other machine the same page takes 20 min. to open and save and the size is 346 MB. At last, on the slow machine the virtual memory usage is about 800 MB - 1,45 GB while saving and opening. This could explains the slowness, but it happens also while opening a new, empty file.
Ok, let me resume:
Thanks in advance.
Claudio
Fan of Milano Hockey Club, Italy
For a machine that is trying to open a large file (800 MB) and have only 512 Meg RAM, it will take a long time. On that machine, you may have several views in the View Manager, that you want to delete, and you may have saved palletes and other items saved, from previous drawings. And these keep coming back, each time you open a file. Thus the large file size and slow opening.
Another thing you may want to do, is to clean out the Temp directory on your system. (Start->Run, then enter '%temp%' without the quotes, and click on OK. This will bring up Windows Explorer, pointing to the system temporary directory. Delete everything that you can, then empty the Trash Can.) Do this on both systems.
HuMJohn aka Hugh Johnson
Hello Hugh,
I've checked the Temp directory ad found only few hundreds KB. This because each morning CCleaner performs an automatic cleaning and because I run a deep cleaning once a month (on both machines).
But I knew you where right, and I asked myself why the views in the View Manager and saved palletes keep coming back, so I checked the "new file" template CORELDRW.CDT: it's 352 MB... No wander the machine was slow.
I copied the template from the other machine and substitute it with the template on the slow machine: new files and PDF opens in 5 seconds, the virtual memory is 41 MB and the file size is 2.38. Problem resolved.
Thank you for your help, your suggestions put me on the right way to find the solution, but I'm a little be ashamed: the solution was that simple, that I should have think to it before.
Thanks again, have a nice weekend and greetings from Milano, Italy.
I am happy that you found the problem and cure for the problem. Sometimes, it is the simple things that we do not see.
Glad to see you find a solution, however it's one of the commont topics of this forum: if you open the Styles docker (Chtr+F5) and clean all the styles (only remains the 3 default styles), then save the template as coreldraw.cdt and save as default for new documents, you will have the same results.
Ariel Garaza Díaz
arielgaraza.com
Jpgs are compressed but any bitmap no matter how it was saved uses the same amount of memory when it is opened.
Virtual Memory = virtually useless memory
It's useful to swap applications out of RAM and useless as a working RAM space.
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