Hi, I recently bought and installed Corel Draw X3 for a college course I'm taking, I had a frustrating weekend tryign to use it on my home PC, It works but its extremely slow and every frame (whatever you call it) takes forever, roughly a second to do things like zoom in or pan the drawing.
I'm pretty sure its not supposed to run that slowly, the school computers I currently use are of lower specs than my PC, corel runs very smoothly on those computers. I'm trying to find and troubleshoot the issue. I'm guessing I have more than enough computer to run the application- quad core cpu, 6 GB ram, a hi end gamer graphics card nvidia gtx 285 1GB- I'm guessing its either my OS (Vista Home Prenium x64) or something else?
I really need help, currently its like watching paint dry when it comes to using Corel Draw on my PC.
-thanks
Hello ocx10; Look and see what else is runing on your computer when you are running CorelDrw. "Crtl+Alt+Delete" You said you'r in to gaming and it may have something running at the same time?
George
I run X3 on a computer with Windows XP,and had issues with docker icons disappearing.
Cured by running in windows 2000 compatibility mode.
Maybe if you try it, it may help.
Locate the draw x3.exe file, right click>properties>compatibility tab>select from drop down list , and activate "run this in compatibility mode for".
Click on Start then Run. In the Run pop-up, enter "%temp%" (without the quotes). This will bring up Windows Explorer, pointing to the system Temp directory. You may have lots of garbage in that directory that applications do not delete when they finish using their created temporary files and directories. So, do a Ctrl+A to select everything in that directory. Then delete as many as you can. finally, empty the Trash Can.
Having many, many files in the Temp directory, uses up too much of Windows resources, thus slowing down Corel Graphics Suite, as well as many other programs.
HuMJohn aka Hugh Johnson
TheSignGuy: I don't usually run any other resource intensive programs at the same time, usually I have vlc (video lan player) playing music and maybe ifrefox open at the same time, neither use enough cpu or ram to really do anything.
If you are having some Antivirus, make sure it should be updated or just for a try you can remove your Antivirus and reset Corel Draw ( launch with f8 pressed ) . Still if it does not solves your problem you can reinstall your Antivirus later.