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.