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.