My post Why does Corel Draw Graphics Suite X5 feel more like beta software? explains everything im having an issue with X5. In an effort to log the issues with this software, Im asking that if your an X5 User and are having file corruption, crashes, freezes and other such fun stuff happening to you killing your time and money while in Draw or Photopaint, please post it here.
In order to keep it all clean and easy for someone at Corel to follow, please only list issues for X5 and not turn it into a discussion out of topic.
Please, there is no need to try to defend Corel here as Iv used Corel since version 4 (not X4), so thats a long time using it.
Yesterday, I helped other user to install Windows 7 Ultimate from zero, then install CorelDRAW X5 (the spanish Trial version) and other programs of course. Nothing happens, no crashes, no errors, all old Corel file open and works fine. So,if it's a bug of the program, everytime you install CorelDRAW must have the same issues, and all people must have the same problems. I know, several people have problems, but not all people. And not all people have the same problems... if you read the forum, some people cant´t install, other people can install but can't save, other people can install and can save, but the program is slow; other people has not problem to install, save or work, has not problem with the speed but the program crashes sometimes... I remember two years ago: some people say the same about X4,
As I said before. My main issues have been with Photopaint. Not everyone uses the same tools in Photopaint. So some may Never see the same issues just because they use Photopaint to say, correct color or crop things down. I use Photopaint pretty much for all it can do. I get the same errors clean install or not. I tested this to be the issue under 7 on two different systems with a fresh install originally. That meant with all windows & updates, all driver updates and No other software installed but Corel X5. But Im having the exact same issues on a XP machine a Vista Machine and Windows 7 64 Bit machine. The exact same issues. So how could this be a configuration problem?
See, Some of my files have corrupted just saving them. No other program suffers this issue. I Use my machine also for Cinema 4D Studio and After Effects. Again your theory is flawed. Not everyone is saving the same things.Not everyone is using the same files. Not everyone is using the same tools. Not everyone is working with the same images. So no, not everyone is going to have the same issue all the time, but many have been having the exact same issue with a few things.
X5 is the only app I get out of memory issues even 10 minutes into a project. In fact I dont get out of memory issues with any app but Corel X5 on any computer I own. Plenty of Physical and virtual memory to be used on every machine.
Personally, I'm a certified computer tech and had my own business building and repairing computers for years. I specialized in liquid cooled computer systems. Of the hundreds of computers that I built or repaired, installed software or used software on. X5 has been one of the bulgiest Iv used in many years. why there are so many people so quick to downplay the issues is beyond me. Things are wrong, need to be fixed and stating the issue is one way of having the issue resolved.
I get crashes consistently when resizing paragraph text blocks with text in them. It happened a lot in X4 but in X5 its worse. I have even had it just suddenly quit without warning while saving. That corrupted my file. Thank goodness the backup was relatively recent and only lost some of my changes.
This is a brand new laptop running 64 bit Win 7 Home Premium. The old machine I had was running Vista 32 bit and X4. I have used Coreldraw since version 3 and have a bit of experience with the product. I don't think I can recall any version of CorelDraw that didn't crash...some more than others. X5 is definitely the worst. The features of X5 keep me coming back though. To finally have an eyedropper tool within the color changer docker is worth the pain...for now (same within the gradient tool).
Some crashes on X5 on Mac, via Windows 7 (Parallels).
Wont we have an OSX version?
I have also been a Corel user for many years. I found X3 to be the most stable, and X4 became usable with the advent of service pack 2. Although In X4 I started to save big files every few minutes because it also had the habit of suddenly closing when a file got too big and work would also simply disappear. Here I'm talking about files of around 150 MB - a 64 page newsletter.
I have just removed X5 from my machine after a very short trial because it closed when I decided to go into Tools-Options to deselect the cross-hair cursor. I was working on a document brought in from X4 As soon as I clicked Tools-Options my work from the last 15 minutes disappeared. And that was not the first time. I just can't recall what I was doing the first time it happened. The file size was under 1 MB.
Anyhow, it is quite clear that there is something seriously wrong. I consider myself to be a power user. The machine that this happened on is an Intel Core 2 Duo 3.00Ghz with 3.93 GB of RAM running Windows XP 64.
Everything else runs just fine.
I am wondering whether there is anything in the fact that it happened while working on a file it translated from X4 to X5.