Hi Guys,
My CorelDRAW 2021 is running slow and kind of locking up often at the moment, I have a reasonably high spec / powered system running 32gb of ram, does anybody have any remedies or fixes please? all help greatly appreciated. Thank you
SNAP, brand new higher spec workstaion and new install of CD....9 months later.....GO SLOW... happens every year now, mainly about the same time i get requests to pay for an upgrade !!!
Without knowing anything about you systems and the applications that you run an exact answer is tough.
I can tell you this just does not happen on my systems and make some suggestions.
If you're running 3rd party anti-virus and anti-malware this may be an issue. MS anti-virus and anti-malware does not affect CorelDRAW.
Are the systems laptops? Do they exhibit latency and is it at times significant? Latency can cause corruption or simply very slow behavior.
Do you daily keep up with Windows updates? If not that may contribute to latency.
You may want to clean up the tmp folder, this can contribute to latency.
Cheer David, Do you subscribe or buy a one off licence ? Im on a one off licence
I do not run any anti virus other than windows (I follow the John Mcafee principle)
Large PC workstation
Windows Updated, Often happens after a windows update if that helps.
First thing i do is the temp clean up, and clipboard clean up, been asked to do that before by Corelhelpdesk.
I run the subscription version and have no perpetual versions of 2023 ergo no experience with 2023 perpetual.
Are you running 2021 or 2021.5? There was a substantial difference in terms of stability on my system.
I would clean out your tmp folder.
If you experience wonky (that's a technical term) behavior after an update close all applications and reboot Windows.
If this fails do a hard boot, that's a shutdown and after 30 seconds restart.
Now this is going into the weird but I have a laptop that at least once 9r twice a year must be shut down, unplugged from power and the battery removed, then reinsert tye battery and plugged back into power, then the updates finalize and it works fine for a long time.
Now even farther into the bizarre. My current (2 1/2 years old) tower desktop has had issues in the past with being wonky after Windows 10 Pro updates. All but two times a simple reboot resulted in a return to normal behavior. However twice I had to shutdown, pull the power cord from the power supply for a minute and restart. Both times normal operation returned.
My system is an i9 with an Asus main board, an 8GB NVidia graphics card, a Samsung SSD and 64 GB of RAM.
aha Suscription ! That might solve the issue ! no reason to push you for sign up by slowing yoru down! hee hee ha ha
After it started again on Tuesday I thought it was a good time/excuse to replace the old graphics card with a spanking new one I had purchases a month or so ago but never found time to fit. So a super hard reset was preformed only yesterday. fingers were crossed after re booting it may have cleared up but no, the "blue circle of suspence" was still there ! hee hee
the spec if it helps:
AMD Ryzen 5 4500 6-Core Processor 3.60 GHz,
16.0 GB (15.9 GB usable) RAM
B450 AORUS ELITE Motherboard
Radeon RX550 4gb Graphics card