I just bought CorelDraw2020 since I had so many problems with 2019. And it's crashing all the time! I'm doing normal actions - selecting, using the shape tool, on standard .cdr files. I try to save all the time, but I can't save every 10 seconds, and I keep losing a few minutes of work with every crash (not to mention restarting the program and opening all my files.) What is going on?
To clarify: first the program freezes, then it just closes.
I have a similar issue with the 2020 version, whenever i try to use type tool the software crashes. can anyone help?
Jumping ahead, my CorelDraw 2020 problems eventually went away, albeit with zero help from this forum. It is hard to put finger exactly on what the solution was. I uninstalled the Suite, cleaned the registry with CCleaner and reinstalled. I rebooted after every move. At some point suddenly I was able to reopen the files that CorelDraw/CorelPaint created. Up to that point, CorelDraw would bomb the moment I tried to access again the file. I suspect that the repeated reboots were helpful.
There is some fragility in that software and the personality of the forum here is as if in addition you were kicked in the face while lying.
same for me, I've scanned for viruses, scanned the hardware as someone mentioned above, tried rebooting, uninstalling and reinstalling, ran the cleaner but nothing worked even after reinstalling the software is experiencing the same problem. Seems like this forum wouldn't be of much help either.
TFA said:Seems like this forum wouldn't be of much help either.
Windows and computers generally are full of s##t that happens.
If there is not 10s of complaints about an issue then the chances are it is something related to your system or to something you have done. Even I accept that reality!
You need to think about how you are going to sort through issues. A few lines in here doesn't give anyone much of a chance.
Especially commercially sold systems, my Toshiba laptop when first put on line was awful. It ran but performance lacked and CorelDRAW occasionally crashed. A bit over a year later I noticed what I thought was a hard drive issue so I looked up an exact replacement. If memory serves it cost $15 and I knew that was not a good idea so I spent $60 on a Western digital. It was as if the system was a completely different system, greatly improved performance and no more CorelDRAW crashes.
About 2 years ago I upgraded the wireless transceiver and network performance was significantly improved.
The system may by 8 or 9 years old and runs 2020 and 2021 well enough to still serve for client meetings.
Buying or building computers for the Windows OS is part technology and part art.
The 2020 Suite nightmare came back, with either Paint or Draw bombing when opening the files they themselves created. What helped this time was applying the Update 1 for the Suite and rebooting - good for now. Putting blame on Windows is pretty absurd, as hundreds of programs run simultaneously without problems within the very same framework and, no, there are no systems in the world that are ideal, unless they are very primitive. I am not sure whether these are company shills operating here or people with the particular state of mind congregating. Incidentally, Update 1 mentions fixing stability issues reported by users.
Update 1 has for a long time been what the product should have been when released. Do you think we are not critical about this? Only Corel programmers know where those bugs are injected from. Most often it is their code BUT you can't assume that. Not all code is owned by Corel, there are many libraries used, mostly from Microsoft. The compiler is likely from Microsoft. Only Corel know where errors are generated. You can bet that over the years emails fly between Corel and Microsoft during that period between the release and SP1. That's part of the process. You still haven't given anyone here what is needed to help you. Not even your system details. Or that you have looked at an event log. Just that it's a nightmare. So what you get back is just the nightmares we have had. And my #1 nightmare is usually a memory issue. And the #1 fix is a rub of the contact with a pencil rubber. 90% of computers I've fixed I've done it with a damn pencil rubber. That's life in the sub-tropics where everything corrodes. If you man up with your system details and age then at least we can help you rule that out.