What has happend to PowerTrace?Its getting redicoulus slow to trace anything now. In 2019 versjon it was verry accurate and fast. Now it takes forever to trace any image that is a bit large. and many times it dosent even trace what is on the image(usulay a logo). parts of the logo is gone. It can be from big chunks of graphics to smaler tings like just one letter missing from a word.
But why are thise settings removed?It worked fine the way it was before. But I see now estimated time is all the way up to an hour.Its realy anoying that they do this tings to the program that was working just fine.
Because there was huge demand from users to remove the limit to bitmap size. If you want it to be quicker downsize your bitmap in PP before tracing.
Or pony up and get a powerful system.
Agree. Automatic downsizing was very frustrating.Changing it gave us the choice to either downsample or live with the fact that it takes a while (or crashes Draw).
We're looking at the situation were the evolution of the user is towards less capability in terms of equipment and their investment in their own training. All graphic related industries are seeing this, the camera industry is dying.
CorelDRAW users need to invest in themselves and their equipment, Trace as well as the rest of the Suite needs powerful equipment, any time study shows that as long as you avoid gaming systems specifically any AMD and Xeon devices you retrieve your investment in equipment quickly. Get the i9, the SSD, 32 GB of RAM, it expands your capabilities.
I have an i7 8700K with 500GB SSD and 16GB of Ram. The Cpu dosent even blink when tracing. just encreese in RAM from 40% up to about 85%. But there is still som RAM left that can be used. No siginficent increase in disk usage either. Still after a minute or so the image comes out in vectors with many of the pieces missing from the final resoult. Its not like this alle the time. but on sertain images it corrupt the final resoult. Trying once more gives me a enourmus boost in cpu usage, up to 97% and no increase in RAM og SSD uasge. And this time it takes forever. But same resoult.
Your RAM amount of usage may be forcing you into swop disk, this might be causing corruption. Windows uses 2 GB leaving 14 GB. If you have othe apps running. 16GB of RAM is lite today, my last system used 32 my current uses 64. My tests show a very modest improvement from 32 to 64 but a significant improvement from 16 to 32.
Is your system a laptop?