Hello
I do have problem with my newly installed CorelDraw X5. Before X5 we used Corel 12 in our company.
I have project file (150 MB) with lots of text, bitmaps, vectors - about 100 pages. File opens but I can't save it. I always get OUT OF MEMORY error. I even tried to divide this file into 2 smaller parts but still doesn't work.
What I noticed - Corel X5 after clean start (without opened project) takes about 80MB of RAM in task manager. When I open project usage changes from 80MB to 1,2GB. While saving it takes 1,6GB of RAM and it crashes.
To compare - Corel 12 and after opening same project file Corel 12 takes much less of memory - about 770MB and it works without problem.
Where from comes this memory usage difference? Any solutions?
My PC:
Windows 7 - 32bit
4GB of RAM
Intel Core2Duo 2 x 3.0GHz
700GB free space on drive C:
Please help. I've read milion other posts about corel memory errors and noting workes for me :( I have no hope :(
Thank you guys for all replies.
Lets sum up for me and for others with similar problems what we can try to do to fix memory problem:
- install service pack
- delete views in Views manager
- delete color styles in Color styles manager
- clean up temp folder - start \ run \ %temp%
- reduce resolution of photos used in corel project - Bitmap \ Resample
- reduce number of fonts in Windows
- change virtual memory (anyone can give hints what settings use? I've read that swap file should me max. 3x bigger than available RAM memory, but I don't know if it's true)
- install Windows 64-bit with more RAM ;)
Something else?
Now I'm fighting with small files - I try to open small 11MB file with 3 pages inside (contains text and photos) and in Corel 12 it opens OK, but in X5 it won't even open - I get condition error:
CorelDRAW X5 Condition #1002-D:/WALDO/V1500/ENGINES/CRUTL/LISTMAN-0760
I think it's not a memory problem this time - I think you may be right that file contains bad data for Corel X5 but it works fine with Corel 12. Any ideas what X5 does not like about content of this file?
Now the question - what could cause such thing? Fonts? Color profiles?
michasiek said:- change virtual memory (anyone can give hints what settings use? I've read that swap file should me max. 3x bigger than available RAM memory, but I don't know if it's true)
Hi there
If you have a system with a single hard-drive I don't think there's much point in changing the virtual memory settings, except for possibly switching from 'windows manages' to specifying a size. The only benefit of specifying here would be to reduce a performance hit if windows decides to resize the swap file (when 'windows manages' is selected). Not sure about how big, but 3x RAM sounds like plenty to me. With the power of modern systems I'm not if it would be noticeable
If you have more than one HD then there can be a performance benefit from moving the virtual memory to the second drive. Even better if that second drive is a fast one.
Hope that helps
Andy