i recently bought a new laptop and installed my good old friend Corel Graphics Suite X4, and i was sooooooooooooooooooooooooo slow, so i decided to upgrade to Corel Graphic Suite X5 to fit the problem, i thougth, but nothing.
Basically it takes a loooooooooong time to open a file, save it, copy, paste and delete any objects. So a 5 minute graphic, can take at least 45 miutes to do, which is francly ridiculous, frustrating, etc...
i played around with hte other software installed, thinking it might be my brand new stinking laptop, but no, they run super fast, as i expected, soooooo my conclusion is...IT'S THE FRIGGIN' COREL SOFTWARE!!!!!!!
BTW, don't take me wrong, i do love corel, i've used it since forever and wouldn't change it for anything, but right now i'm going crazy with it............PLEASE SOMEBODY HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!
(Somebody who knows, what he/she is talking about)
i've decided to return de laptop and get and other one with a intel core i5 and nvidia graphics card, hopefully i won't have the problems i have now, BTW i started a new workspace and it did help a little bit...thanks guys for all your input
It's not the software even on my single core hyper-threaded junk chipusing memory I'd slowed to 133 both x4 & x5 were very fast.
I harp on about doing full memory checks. If you don't rule out potential hardware issues first then you can chase your tail for a very long time.
Certain programs access memory in different ways at different locations. In your case returning the laptop is a good choice. If you were to keep it then doing a memory scan should be your next move. That's built-in on Win Vista and above. Whatever the instructions are on the boot screen.
Ned's Mother -- You gotta help us, Doc. We've tried nothing and we're fresh out of ideas! ( The Simpsons, Hurricane Neddy -- Season:8 Episode:8 First Aired:12/29/1996 )
We also have performance issues - using X3. We have a fairly new PC running Vista with 3GB Ram.
Primarily we create pages full of small (4cm max diameter) images (pasted from other graphics package). We currently can only use a maximum page size of 330 x 254 - anything bigger causes Corel Draw to grind to a halt. I'm assuming it's just too many objects. The time to save a file is rediculous.
We really want to scale up - ideally to using rolls of print media - but we cannot because of the cost of downtime using Corel. We are about to look at alternative packages like Adobe Illustrator. Anyone know if that suffers the same problem?
Thanks
Tim
Chances are there is something in the system that's not lovin' us...Try booting that machine into safe mode try some basic stuff...the display will look horrible but it will tell you if there is a driver or software conflict with the software.
FWIW, that kind of thing can happen with anysoftware, so it could happen with Illy as well.
T.
I have the same problems winth Corel X4 on windows 7 X64, the computer simply fly to other programs or games, to games not think there was something that did not go to maximum.The system would be: 9850 X64 AMD Phenom quad core 2.5 GHz, NVIDIA 9800 + 500 GX 3.4 giga ram DDR 800 RAM frequency. I work in Corel Graphic X4 and frequently end my nerves.I noticed that much harder work to certain applications, namely: when it comes to text copy / paste and when graphics are so many points.Instead ifi have shadows, effects and more pictures at high resolution graphics on large worked well until everything is text example.I am very curious where this problem comes.Mention i make graphic on a computer at work at least half that the weaker and goes home a thousand times better but in Corel X3.Should lie in corel x3? ... But do not know if it is compatible with 64-bit Windows 7.
Sorry to bother you. You solved the problem in Corel X4? I have not been able to manage anything. I break my computer and I throw it. If you have any news please send me by e-mail solution, too: mariusstatescu@yahoo.com.
As a test, only. Disconnect the network from your laptop, and then turn off, completely, your AV and test run Corel. If you do see a significant difference, then I suggest that you seek a different AV software.
HuMJohn aka Hugh Johnson
Am having same speed issues and think there must be some major code bottlenecks in X5.
Interesting....In my case I installed x5 on my brand new 64bit, 12gig of RAM, Liquid cooled 3.95 overclocked processor, solid state HD, 6 core dream machine (insert manly tool time grunts here) with high hopes - only to be dismayed at how slow corel was running. For the first time ever I had to run CorelDraw in normal mode instead of enhanced just to make it less frustrating. However, after a couple days everything started running normal and then much faster than my old machine.
I use the old machine (xp) for a RIP computer so both machines are set up next to each other... I tested them by having them regenerate a 300MB bitmap (among other things) It took the new machine about 1/5 the time to just about everything.
Needless to say I'm much happier....
Aha - figured out the problem...
We were doing cut and paste from another package - the paste was pasting the objects as OLE objects and they were huge. Once I re-did all the work using Paste-special (as bitmaps) the size reduced heaps and the performance was great!
HTH
Actually Yani, I refuse to concur with that statement. If you take 2 minutes to do a quick google search on "Corel Draw slow on Win7 x64", you'll be flooded with hits describing exactly what's been described here. It's an on going issue that needs to be resolved ASAP as it slows production to media companies. Also, beyond that fact, if you read this post carefully, you'll notice NEW PC not second hand or fresh install.....NEW...PC..
This pretty much indicates that A) Win 7 is crap (and as a system admin for the last 6 years I can tell you with utmost confidence...uhm...no! Even though I don't like Windows myself) or B) Corel is either not fully compatible, OR leaches to much memory. I'm struggling with the exact problem only on X3. Only 1 user runs Win 7 x64 and she's the only one with an issue. I have users running Inkscape on WINE in Ubuntu with less issues. Everything else runs perfectly...just the Win 7 x64 pc is hastling us. I recommend a fix/patch should be released to fix this nasty bug.
Tony, as a Corel Employee I appreciate the angle your coming from, but I have to say man, this thread (much like many others on the net right now) speaks for itself. Clearly there is an issue. FYI, I actually installed "Illy" (Adobe Illustrator) and I'm not experiencing any issues. My problem how ever is that we're spent on our budget and we're not going to purchase any more applications as far as licensing goes. So until our budget allows it, we're stuck with Corel. I thought that when you pay for an application such as Corel, you pay for support, but so far, we haven't seen any answers. Not from Corel's side, nor from third party. Everyone's playing the blame game right now, trying to point fingers to other vendors when the problem, clear as daylight is with the application..
Are there any form of support forums where one can go to atleast try find an answer to this problem?
Tony, one last thing I'd like to bring up...... and this goes out to everyone who insists the issue's not with Corel..
Please read below made by Kirk Bedtelyon...
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Need I say any more?
My guess is that the main issue is because Corel, well at least the one I've got installed, is a 32bit app. In a nutshell, 32bit apps cannot address more than 3 to 4GB of ram - so all of you with more RAM - it simply is not accessible by 32bit apps. Also if your process is going nut and it's not really doing much - I'd guess that it is 'thunking' - a term used to describe the process of converting 32 bit operations to 64bit.
A true 64bit version of Corel (ie they've compiled it and all the libraries/dll's etc it uses as 64bit) should address these issues.
Regards