Hi
I have a brand new Dell 7510 laptop, with Intel HD 50 graphics (onboard, it's a Core i7 CPU) and a Nvidia M2000M graphics card. I have a clean install of Windows 10. 32GB RAM, SSD, Core i7 CPU.
I'm having problems with the Intel graphics driver crashing, so I've been through all the hoops of updating drivers etc. But it's suddenly occurred to me: it only crashes when I'm using Corel X7! I can use the laptop for Photoshop, Word, Excel, Firefox etc. all day with no issues, but within 20 minutes of using Corel I get an Intel display driver crash.
Can anyone shed any light please?
Many thanks
Jim
A little update there is a huge difference between the way Photo-PAINT and Draw use memory and video memory verses Adobe products. I process 1 GB files from all these products regularly as an example when you save a large file from Photoshop it prepares the high res display, it then prepares to save the file, then it saves the file, on a large file it can be a 30 minute process. The same size file in Photo-PAINT only goes through the save process and takes less than 1/3 the time. Photo-PAINT is vastly faster however it seems to be much more memory intensive during edits.
If you work in PS and regularly save every 10 minutes you're dead you just have to risk as crash, not so much a problem with Corel Photo-PAINT X7.
So as you can see your issue is deeply interesting.
David Milisock said:I see the intel drivers but you're using an NVidia card so I'm confused, the system and therefore CorelDRAW should be using the NVidia card. Are the NVidia drivers up to date?
This is because the laptop uses both video adapters.The embedded Intel is used for desktop and programs that are not on the venders (Nvidia) supported list. Unlike Adobe products, CDGS doesn’t take advantage of openGL and openCL that I am aware of, with this there will be little interest in supporting them in this type of setup.As for the crashes, it is important to use both drivers supplied by Dell as additional tweaks are done on them for stability. I recommend going to Dell’s driver download page for the model and locate the most updated driver and use them, be sure to uninstall the newer versions installed first.
Why wouldn't you just disable the Intel card?
David Milisock said:Why wouldn't you just disable the Intel card?
Name brand builders seldom offer the option in BIOS settings today, instead electing to utilize the available hardware and enhancing performance.Think of it like a multi-processor graphic card, so by driving the desktop or other smaller applications with the onboard GPU you could push more power to games or programs.This same type of setup can be done using two or more high end ATI or Nvidia cards.So setting this up you will go to the setup for the ATI or Nvidia and select the applications to run. Here is where the problem is for CDGS and Painter; they never appear in the lists and run in container never appears on shortcuts, see below.Vector programs are not really graphic intensive the way raster is, simply because vector is math and raster is pixels, what does come into play are fills within the vector container.Historically you would need to purchase a workstation class graphic card to get vector output performance for AutoCAD or settle for CPU for calculations, this is now moving down to main stream with OpenCL, this is similar to OpenGL for raster. Personally I think it is time for Corel to start taking advantage of these offerings, however, it is easier said than done as major refactoring will be required in their vector, raster, and color engines to take advantage the api’s.
Here is an example Using Draw 17.6, it is set to run Nvidia but does not load in a container.
This is with Painter running in a container; this is how draw and photo-paint should behave.