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.
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.
That's just not true. You can look in your windows logs and find the exact offending DLL or module. The error codes will give you the exact problem as will examining the process' memory directly (you need a special app for that, which I have). The problems with 2019 for instance universally involved Corel's color library code. EVERY crash mentions the exact same thing.
I honestly don't even think the Corel programmers know the problem. If they did, they would fix it. The problem is that Corel outsourced most of it's staff to overseas countries that don't have the same level of expertise as their old programmers did. They did this to save money, but when you go with the lowest bidder, you get the lowest quality. That's true for everything, from cars to code.I blame KKR. The company has seemingly gone to s**t since they purchased Corel a few years back.