I am working in CorelDRAWX5 with some very large PSD and TIFF files, some over 50mb each, Corel has locked up and crashed numerous times. I'm afraid this will cause me to lose the work.
Would this be due to CorelX5 or my computer system most likely?
I have a Dell AMD Athlon II X2 240 Processor 2.80 GHz
4.00 GB RAM
Windows 7
I am just wandering if I need to upgrade my computer or software to limit it locking up and crashing.
Hello Judy; It's always fun to add goodies to the computer, You didn't say if you are running the 32 or 64 bit Windows. If the 32 bit you are as high as you need to go, if it's the 64 bit you can't have enough RAM. Just because you think the computer is froze and crashed, just Wait a little while sometimes it takes a while for it to do what ever it was told to do.
George
Something else, you usually get a pop up flag when Corel does die.
it's 64 bit. So do I need to add ram for it not to do that. I was barely able to work on the project without it freezing up.
Judy said: it's 64 bit. So do I need to add ram for it not to do that. I was barely able to work on the project without it freezing up.
CorelDRAW X5 was a 32 bits software, so it will run better under Windows 32 bits. For example, Windows 64 bits can handle more than 4 Gb of RAM (8, 16 and more) but always will allows uo to 2 Gb of RAM max to CorelDRAW X5, no matter the RAM you have.
btw not all is RAM and speed. One of the most important things is the Virtual Memory of Windows (the swap file), since it's used by teh operating system for store temporary files. The more Virtual Memory you have, more stability and less crashes you will have