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
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.
Get over yourself. You say that you had to close your business because untested you put a new version CorelDRAW on line and it doesn't work.
If that's true the problem is not CorelDRAW.
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.
I'm getting to the end of life on my current system which I bought the 2 years before windows 11 came out.
It's been rock solid and still performs well but in 2025 Windows 10 support ends and the machine will be 6 years old by then so I must start planning.
Being semi-retired and the 2 to 3 gigabyte drawings days waning I have some research to do and choices to make. It's not like the old days of my machines running hard 16 hours a day and system productivity so important that I simply changed them every 3 years. Now it's a few big architectural projects a year, lots of image editing and my own photography.
The one pet peeve that I have is that my ViewSonic 4K display has a proximity power switch that during the summer with humidity changes will require that several times a week I have to physically wipe the power button with a cloth to stop it from randomly shutting off. If not, it always shuts down at the worst time, it can drive me crazy.
So, I've made it part of my start to work procedure each session to just wipe the damn thing. Crazy technology that someone thought would be a good idea.
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.