This isn't really a question.
I've finally upgraded my system. went from a first gen i3 windows 7 32 bit with a normal hard drive and 3gb of ram(max allowed under 32 bit), to a 4th gen i7(4790) windows 8.1 64 bit with a solid state drive and 32 gb of ram (excessive right?).
And overnight all my problems with mail merge and vg core memory issues are gone.
Why am I posting this? For the next time someone asks I've got a merge problem or a VG Core issue, let me tell you, I felt your pain, and I no longer have those issues. I just completed a mail merge that took 11.8 gb of memory to process. Final print file of 2.2 gb about the second largest merge ever for me, but this time it worked right the first time AND I didn't have to use ANY work arounds or 'freeform masters' on the fiery.
I thought my computer was fast enough, and it was for most things. But if you are doing merges, or large output, you need to look at your processor and memory.
Mike Ver Duin said:32 gb of ram (excessive right?).
No, if your run a race car than use a big engine, CorelDraw works hard, give it room to breath!
Mike Ver Duin said:and 32 gb of ram (excessive right?)
All the laws of windows say there's no such thing as an excess of ram. And I guess in a few years time we'll have windows 15 and a statutory minimum of 128Gb of ram if you want calculator to work with numbers bigger than 99.
And there will probably still be a few people that can remember the days when computers had a maximum of a kilobyte of memory, and it required a board 15" square for every 256 bytes.
There's no doubt that efficiency in programming is a thing of the past but it has escalated out of control.
Hello Mike; I know what you see with a 64 bit system with 4 gig of ram, then went to 8 gig and it made a lot of things work better, now I have 16 gig and looking at getting another 16 for this system. I'm also looking at the ASRock mobo and the DDR4 some FAST Fast ram. While you are at it you may as well look at a big Fast video card for Fast redraws the video is a large bottle neck in the speed. George
I'm just curious, why don't you like using VDP on the fiery? In an ideal world fiery could have a better VDP system, but a 2.2gb file must take a while for the fiery to process. Though, I'm not saying it's a great solution for a complicated merge. But it rasters a lot faster if you can use it.