Program crashes unexpectedly while performing various tasks (e.g., saving, printing, copying, pasting, etc., etc.). So far no tweaks suggested by Corel tech support over the last 3 months have resolved the problem. I exclusively use CorelDRAW to make life/safety diagrams of medical facilities. Typical workflow is to import PDF of existing diagram, ungroup, edit, save, and export new diagram to PDF for distribution. I am an experienced CDGS user, and am using a new Dell computer (plenty of RAM, good GPU, Windows 11, and all the software is up to date. Crashes less often when I perform my edits at a snail’s pace, but even then it crashes unexpectedly…seems like the program is having a problem managing multi-tasks. I’m sure that other CorelDRAW users have experienced this problem and hopefully found a solution. I joined the CorelDRAW community to find a solution. HELP!
First the system is poor, I blame Corel for publishing low system specs.
An i5 with 16GB of RAM a 1 GB video for CorelDRAW work, get real. The i5 was released in 2009, they're not tremendouslybetter now, I got my wife an i7 with 16 GB of RAM just to run the pro version of MS Office and our accounting program.
I had 6 programs open and over 5GB of files opened simultaneously yesterday with my i9 desktop, it has 64 GB RAM, an 8GB display card and a 2 TB SSD. It's getting long in the tooth, I'll retire it maybe this year but definitely in 2025.
Buying or building computers can be complicated, if you get poo advice you may not get WHT you pay for, the fact is if you don't get a good machine you'll certainly pay for what you didn't get.
File creation and work habits are another issue, graphic file creation is adrift on an ocean of both bad habits and lousy file creators.
I use Logitech G300s programmable mouse which is why there's the Logictech gaming framework open
The media player is uh, playing music; Boccherini Cello Concertos at that time.
Are you suggesting the CorelDRAW is that sensitive any little thing will cause to crash? I would expect this from beta versions of software and not from mature software.
Again David I use AutoCAD and Sketchup without any problems.
Anyway without investing thousands of dollars in cutting edge IT tech I did find the most likely reason for the crashes.
If I save the file then immediately (mouse wheel) zoom that will most likely result in a crash.
Smaller files are not prone to this occurrence, only the larger files will this be a problem.
There have been issues with Logitech products and CorelDRAW reported on this forum, I use both a Logitech Mouse and Keyboard.
I'm assuming that you zoom after the save command has finished, if so this may be a graphics card resource issue.
I never had any issues with Logitech and with this older particular mouse.
Yes I see the Floppy Disk icon for saving and saves do not take that long to finish.
My graphic card is hardly ticking over. Even with huge building site AutoCAD files or Sketchup files I don't have any graphic card issues.
Even zooming after save does not always result in a crash, however as I am more alert this will cause a crash although randomly.
I have a hard time troubleshooting as I cannot replicating issues, I rarely run into problems. Here's a screen capture of the memory use from today's job.