i downloaded the subscription to 22/23 corel graphics suite (doesn't look much different than my X8) i thought the trace feature had been improved....looks and performs the same as my X8?
Jesus my i9 with 64GB of RAM can be had for $1,300 with a DVD and multi-card reader. As of today it has run 24/7 for 3 years 2 weeks, it gets restarted only for updates and software installations. It has been a serious money maker for me.
I suggest that if the business is that hard up for money you may want to move on.
Ink jet RIPs really require very little power, since they have no trapping or real critical imposition many users use a laptop and they can always stay way ahead of the printer.
I opened up a donor wall that I'm reworking it's 111 feet x 14 feet that's the proof file and the output file with 23 power clipped panels, all the CNC work for the metal and the acrylic as well as the 22 large format prints for dimensional mounting. I also opened a large van for a flower shop both the proof file and the 16 panel power clipped work file for print and all this come in just over 3GB simultaneously so if you need 128 GB of RAM you're doing something wrong.
No offense, but I call bullshit. I can have a single file with minimal content open and CorelDRAW shows 7GB of memory usage (that has been common for more than a decade). That goes up astronomically when you have anything of consequence open. Did I also mention that CorelDRAW has a nasty habit of not releasing memory when you close a file? I see CorelDRAW using 26GB of memory or higher every single day...and that's just Draw by itself. Add in Photopaint with a large file and a dozen other apps I use, and it hits 40-50GB used pretty easily.A point to consider here is that I have paging pretty much turned off on the machine due to the amount of RAM it has. It NEVER pages to disk. EVER. EVER. Everything is held in RAM and it's SOO FAST because of that. Since it doesn't page out, it holds it all in active RAM. That may be why you see less overhead on your end. Corel has an extremely nasty habit of paging to disk when it isn't necessary. Disabling virtual memory in favor of gobs and gobs of physical memory eliminates that behavior (and come to think of it, that may explain some of the issues I have with Corel if for some idiotic reason it actually NEEDS a page file, which would be incredibly stupid). Frankly, even it the lack of a paging file is a problem for Corel, I will deal with the problems that creates happily in exchange for SPEED. There is no lag on this box...EVER. Regardless of how hard I push it. No page file means I never have to wait for windows to dig through it's junk bin to find the app I switched over to. Swapping apps is instantaneous this way.
I am an extremely impatient woman. A fraction of a second of delay between what I click on and what happens as a result is unacceptable in any way. My machines are all configured for instant gratification with NO delays or bottlenecks. My systems never lag, never stutter and I never have to wait on anything but CorelDRAW to bloody trace a simple @#$%@#$ image. That's probably why the trace performance fiasco is so galling to me. I despise systems that are not super responsive and can't keep up with me.
Yes but you put some of my problems whilst beta testing down to my dual Xeon processor, I know becuase I can remember the conversations. Hoever you were incorriect in doing so as these self same problems manifest themselves with my new iX processor and Windows 11.
That's CorelDRAW, just sitting there with no open files, doing literally nothing... using almost 18GB of memory. This is the norm for every system I have ever used it on. Gobs of memory used...for no reason at all other than Corel can't code their trash collection correctly to save their lives. When you close a file, the app should release that memory. Corel never does and hasn't in about a decade.
That's why I have 128GB of RAM.