Recently purchases CD 2024 because my V 2018 was so slow and not working properly.
It was loaded onto my brand new high computer but from the very start it did not work properly.
It was very slow and no better than my V 2018.
Following lots of discussion with CD the matter is still not resolved and they have now passed me to CD UK.
The programme is so bad now that I cannot use it and this has resulted in me having to close my business.
Has anyone else experienced such problems with CD 2024?
Does anyone know any effective way of dealing with CD in such matters?
Hoping someone can help.
Chris
SO MANY factors can influence the performance of any program on different computers.Computer peripherals, software installed, drivers up to date, etc... It has nothing to do with the fact that it is new or not. If your computer doesn't have the 'right specifications', you'll be running into issues.IMPORTANTSAD FACT. Even though Corel specifies AMD components are compatible with the program, AMD components have not had a good batting average with CorelDRAW. Don't know why. Personally, Many moons ago, I go tired of it and I switched to Intel and NVidia (With Studio Drivers, not Game Ready). I got rid of 80% of issues right there!For help, you must be so much more specific, my friend. Your clues are much to vague.Help us out a bit. We'll be able to better help you.
I really wish that I could figure out the AMD, Xeon processor issues. They have plaqued CorelDRAW for decades and I fear that it will never be solved.
My wife has an entry level HP laptop that she uses for shopping, family communications and web surfing. It runs X8 with zero issues, it's slow because it's under powered but it never crashes CorelDRAW or corrupts a file.
On the other hand years ago I put in a Toshiba Intel i5 laptop and it was just awful. About a year later a hard drive scan showed bad sectors on the drive so I looked for a factory replacement, it was $15 U.S. which was unbelievable. READ cheap crap!
At that time you couldn't and still can't buy a decent drive for $15 so I paid $80 for a Western Digital drive. BINGO! It was a completely different machine and ran CorelDRAW just fine.
As they say the Devil is in the details.
I had two AMD based computers many years ago, for budget reasons. And 'on paper' these machines were supposed to perform better than Intel. I couldn't figure out why, but a very trustworthy friend of mine, computer tech, recommended me to just 'pay' the money, and get Intel based machines.He even recommended brand named machines instead of clones. Brand named machines are tested with the components, compatibilty wise. Clones, not at all. Brands of hardware weren't necessarily compatible when put together. I wasn't a computer tech at the time, but a warehouse manager for a computer store where we mostly sold clones. I saw so many hardware returns, you wouldn't believe it. So many people think they know about computers but they end up not being so talented.I then bought an HP desktop at Costco. Damn fast machine! Except for the quality of the components. RAM sticks gave out, Power Supply, On board Graphics card gave out. I had to changes so many pieces. But was still a fast machine.Switched to Dell. XPS desktop. I'm now at my 3rd one. Best machines I ever had. Never change a component.One lesson learned though... I7 processors. There's a HUGE difference between the regukar series and the 'K' series.CorelDRAW on these machines... Really great except for the regular series i7. The one I have now. i7 10700. I have 48gigs of RAM. I had a 8700K with 32gigs of RAM that performed way better. Sad thing. When I change my computer, I sell the older one.
Years ago I bought a Dual AMD Athlon processor workstation from a reputable company. I had bugs with CorelDraw then and I had many of the same bugs when I upgraded it to a Dual Xeon machine from the same reputable company.
I know David uses my experiences with Dual Xeon processors during our beta testing days to label them as 'problematic' when in fact they are not. I stopped beta testing and my old system wasn't compatible with the then latest issue of Draw, however I have now upgraded to a 13thgen i5 with 64gig, 1TB nVME and RTX 4060ti.
Let it be known I still have the same bugs with Draw 2018 and when I tested the trial of CDGS2024 most of the bugs I logged back in 2018 still existied, on new hardware and in the new version of Draw. So I take David opinions regardsing processors with a pinch of salt. I call it confirmation bias.
Hywell you're just one in a long list of Xeon processor users that have issues with CorelDRAW. While there are many more AMD users reporting problems with CorelDRAW than Xeon users, there's many more AMD users than Xeon users.
CorelDRAW users with Xeon processor regularly report many issues, excessively in a higher ration than their user base ratio to Intel systems.
I don't have their machines in my hand so I can't attest to what the cause of the issues are however I'm very hard pressed to think of any Xeon processor user on this forum that does not have multiple issues with CorelDRAW.