Iv been a Corel user since 1994 and the last version I bought was 11 and have used it happily. I moved to X5 for the new features and multi core support. Iv had to redo so much work as a result of using Corel Draw X5. To clarify, I do have the boxed retail edition of X5 and never had the demo running the aft mentioned machine.
I would say I have a fast and capable enough machine to run X5. I have a Corei7 920 running at 4.3Ghz , 6Gb's of RAM, a ATI HD5770 and im running Win 7 64bit. Its a fresh install. The overclock is solid and have torture tested running two instances of Prime95 pushing all cores, 8 threads to 100% for 25 hours with no errors. Memory tested with Memtest 15 hours with no errors. Windows 7 is fully updated, No Anti Virus installed, and the only other Applications installed are After Effects CS4 and Cinema4D Studio R11.5. I had many of the same issues in the Corel X5 trial on my WindowsXP SP3 machine.
Yes i have had the same results not overclocked. After Effects and C4D have been Solid.
Uninstall and reinstall shows no improvement in the issues faced. Safe mode=no change, F8 on PP startup= no change.
LIke some of the other Corel versions I had, i had to wait for service packs and patches to have a solid running copy of Corel. But in a professional setting, using software that has this many issues seriously hurts productivity and is a time and money waister. Iv read numerous posts here and in other forums of people having issues like mine or worse with X5.
First of all, its not called CorelDRAW Studio btw, you don't need a specially powerful computer, CorelDRAW must work fine on almost any standard computer. Atltough it works better on Windows 7 32- bits must work fine also on other versions of Windows.
Yeas I know its the Graphics Suite X5, but same difference as saying its a studio, because thats what it is a suite, a studio...of software. Iv been using Corel Draws Graphics Suites for 16 years. long enough to know what it will work on. I ran the X5 Demo on a 2200MHz AMD system with 2GB's of RAM. It has not been working fine obviously from the post. Iv tested and found the retail X5 to perform the same on any system i put it on. XP, 32bit 7 and 64bit 7. I keep getting the same behavior. I have the retail Corel X5, so the issues are not just with the Demo, but the issue is also with what I paid my hard earned money on.
Your posts does not help the fact that there is an issue and offers no help to resolve. It seems that you didnt even read through the whole post after reading about the specs of computer i was talking about.
Dear Ariel,
I use for professional purpose Corel since version 2 .
Version 7 (first with interactive interface), version 9 and 11 I would mark as the best, following could be an x3 version and all other was good, except.....
Version X4 and X5 are purely disaster products of Corel Corporation - both are come with many good intensions for improvement but criminally badly built.
If Corel survive this I believe hard time it could mean just a two thing:
First: That is an unprofesionall product created for amater loosers on PC platforms.
Second. That Corel Draw as an application is not a role business of Corel Company.
Both of them are sed.
I'm from Zagreb (Croatia, Europe) and my company in not a biggest one on domestic market, but many of our competitors who dealing with Corel are pretty desperately because we should change our main working toll with Adobe products (Illustrator and Indesign) and flush away 10-20 years of experience working in corel. All of us regularly buying CS suits because of PS and Acro (and just a sporadically use other Adobe applications).
Design, lay out and prepress we work in Corel, and now after so many years when we convinced other software users (Adobe, Macromedia etc) that corel is an professional tool = Corel convince us to the contrary - that is really built for part time hobbyists.
Thanks to many good people from this forum and their expertise in "reg edit" area and the other Macro builders - we regular users of Corel applications somehow with their and good's help succeeds to use Draw and other Corel products.
These facts should make an obligation for Corel to make huge changes in their approach to customers, but first and basically to make a product which could be competitive even without new version of "X" every two years.
Imagine following situation:
NEW COREL X PRO - professional (working) graphic tool.
With "even" page numbering in it (perhaps other macros included in application) with price of 2500 $.
If it works, if is stabile, if it don't crash (because weather report is bad), if from time to time Corel publish some update (it should not be free of charge instead new X 7,8,9 or whatever number) - everyone will buy it.
And Hobbyists, hobbyists will buy some other cheaper applications on market.
If you can't imagine this, as I'm afraid that I can't imagine this also - that the truth is - that Corel is an half made graphic tool for even not an amateurs (because they intent to be professionals some day).
Regards
Sergej