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)
Hi,
I use both X4 and X5 on a Laptop with Windows 7 PRO 64 bit.I havent had the same experience as you have. With either X4 and X5.Regarding X4: Have you after installing X4 also installed the Service Pack 2 (SP2) ?
Have you checked if you have the minimum requirements needed on your new Laptop?
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i did install the SP2 with the X4 version, and my new laptop does exceed all the minimum requirements, as i wrote all my other software (Microsoft office 2007, adobe acrobat, illustrator cs3, photoshop cs3) work, so far, super fast and without problems, even dvd's burn a lot faster than with my older PC, i even reinstalled and then repaired the corel graphics suite x5, run test of all kinds, antiviruses, scan disk, defragmented and so on.......thanks
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i already set my AV to ignore CDR files, and it improved a little bit, should i set it to ignore zip files too?
what about slow copy/paste/delete operations? they are really slow
ChrisBeck:what about slow copy/paste/delete operations? they are really slow
Far as I know the exact cause of that has never been identified and it only happens to some users. What other software do you run?
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I had a somewhat similar experience with Win 7 64 Bit & a clean install of X$ with SP2 all that changed after my graphic card suddenly crashed & I had to put in a new graphic card which is ironically far less in configuration to the one that crashed and not to mention now X4 as well as X5 are running at blazing speed without any hiccups almost at double the previous speed
So I request you to kindly get your graphic card checked it might be causing the problem
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ouch, that hurt....
maybe if i reinstall or repair the installation, do you think it might help?
You can try holding down F8 when you start and see if rebuilding the workspace will help.
You can also try and set X5 to run in Vista SP2 compatibilty mode and see if that will help...someone else with Win 7 64 bit mentioned that it helped them.
T.