DRAW is sluggish?

Does anyone else seem to think DRAW is sluggish after working in it for a while?  My cursor seems like it is attached to my mouse with a rubber band.  I use the cross hair cursor if that makes any difference.  I seem to remember version 12 doing this.  The longer you would work in it (12), the slower and less responsive it became.  Closing the program and reopening it would freshen it up for a while.  In X4 yesterday, I was working on a rather simple drawing with only one small bitmap and vectors and closing the program and reopening it didn’t seem to help.  I really am trying to like this program.

 

John

 

PS.  My system is adware, spyware and virus free.  4 GB RAM, 3.2 GHz processor, Raid 0-500 GB with over 300 GB free, mundane but adequate video card.

  • I bet you have some driver or memory issues, with your RAM and system resourses Draw should be flying! I have Draw installed on one of my oldest laptops, it has barely 512MB and I think it runs at about 700Mhz and Draw still runs without any hickups. Check your video drivers for the laterst version!

    • Latest drivers available are installed.  Are you using the cross-hair cursor?  CDR9 flies without a hiccup on the same system.

       

      John

      • Yes I am using the cross hair cursor, I have Draw installed on two computers here and experiance no issues with speed, matter of fact X4 should run a little bit faster except for saving files which is slower then X3.

    •  John:

      Open task manager and see if the memory that DRAW is using keeps climbing to some insane level....it's possible that one area or function, feature you are using has a memory leak in it...and if DRAW starts to take up all the system resources it will start to slow down. 

       If you save the documents, close and reopen does the speed come back? Does the speed come back after restarting draw? How long does it take for the slowdown to occur?

      T. 

      • Tony

        I have 4 gig of ram on my system what % should I set for RAM usage for X4? Should Enable Compression be checked in the Memory Option dialog box?

        I have problems with DRAW becoming un-responsive right in the middle of a project and the only way out is to close DRAW.

        Thanks Tony and keep up the great work.

        Jim

      • I must be missing something... isn't the cursor an issue of the OS? In which case, how would that cause Corel to slow? I definitely was having issues with my XP and Corel 12, but I decided that it was more of an issue with sys and vid memory. So when I built this new system I made sure I had more than adequate sys/vid memory. I have a little over 500mb of memory allocated to Corel.

        When I first installed I thought Corel was a bit sluggish, but it seems to zip now. The most annoyance has been visual disappearance of part or all of the design page when I move/close a docker, or even pick up another part of the design and cross over. It seems to happen more with bitmaps, and after working in Corel for a while (over an hour). Manual refresh doesn't help, only when I scroll above/below the image and back. I mentioned this in another post. I have had Corel become unresponsive twice in the past 30 days, thank goodness for backups and saving frequently.

        • If you're one of those people that leaves your computer running all the time, like me, you do need to restart on occasion when beginning anything intensive, like gaming or graphics work.  This allows the system memory to refresh.

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            Tony,

             

            I’m still having problems with draw slowing to a crawl.  This seems to happen when there are a couple of bitmaps on the page and text.  Text seems to be the worse offender especially with a paragraph or two.  Couple that with extremely slow printing on some jobs (I’ve read the explanation about non post script printer) and it gets real tiresome to use X4-SP1.  Closing and restarting draw doesn’t fix this particular issue but does sometimes when draw starts to slow down during the drawing.  Sound confusing?  On some complex drawings, no matter how many times the program is restarted, it’s slow from the very start.  On some drawings when things start to slow down a restart speeds it up for a while (memory leak?).  The important thing here is that in EVERY INSTANCE I can save the drawing as CDR9 and open it in 9 and work until the cows (Cowplands?) come home without it slowing and then print the thing in short order (about 8 times faster than X4) on my non-postscript printer.  On this same non-post script printer, version 9 prints small text clearer than from the same drawing in version X4.

             

            Then there is the problem in X4 with the cross-hair cursor going away when one-time-pan is selected, Icons randomly not lighting up when selected (see my other post) and text handling funkiness.  On the good side, X4 seems to be as stable as or better than some of the previous versions that I’ve used with the exception of (4 and 11).  Are some of these issues being addressed in the next service pack?  Please tell me there is another SP coming.  I have versions 11 & 12 that had issues that weren’t fixed with SP’s  but were fixed in X3 & X4.

             

            John

             

             

             

        •  Same here.....If I restart my computer, everything opens quickly....the longer Draw is open, the worse it gets.  Copy and Paste issues are common-day occurences....and I know about drag and drop, but we build from all kinds of files....and I feel like my staff and I are each losing an hour or more each day waiting for files to open, save...whatever....I'm losing money and my staff is losing patience.  I've been scouring the forums looking for answers....added a Clipboard manager, increased RAM, made A/V programs ignore CDR files...things like that.  My IT guy says all of our systems are kick @$$ graphics-dedicated systems...so I don't know what else to do.  I've upgraded from v12, but yet thinking about going back until a new SP comes out.  I am a stout advocate of Draw almost to my own detriment (using since version 2) and fight tooth and nail against those MAC folks who would badmouth ...and even have converted those who were Illustrator loyalists, but this version is making me a laughing joke of my colleagues with all the bugs we're finding.

          On a side note if Corel folks are reading...I keep setting my preference to "double-click bitmap to launch PP" and it turns off with every file I open.....also the free-hand, node selection is cool, but for some reason, every once in awhile, it grays out the option and doesn't give me the opportunity toggle back and forth....and don't get me started on default font and other font-related issues. Good Grief, I'm frustrated as hell.