Is there a hotfix/patch that resolves memory usage/performance issues with X8

Hi Brian,

It's a very old problem in Corel DRAW.
It's called a Memory Leak. Actually, the problem is that unused memory is not being disabled rather than leaking.
It's a very difficult bug to find.

While waiting for a Corel fix, you can help matters by:
1. Set up a huge Virtual Memory. Do a search in Control panel. Then set Virtual Memory to a very sizable proportion of your hard disk.
2. In RUN, set in %temp%. Delete all contents. Take note of the actual location.
3. Right click on your C drive in Windows Explorer. Click on Tools. Run Clean up. Especially clean out temp files. They may be holding on to RAM.

Good luck.

Phil

When I used X3, it was possible to go to Tools>Options>Memory and change the "Memory Usage" to 90%. If I did not do this, complex vectors, powerclips and such crashed my Coreldraw several times in a day.

I could not find an option to change this in X8; however, some people believe that the crashes have their uses. And sometimes when my Coreldraw freezes, I prefer that it just crashes and then recovers whatever it can. I was guessing that maybe Corel already created some kind of fail safe memory thing.

In general, all Graphics programs use a lot of memory and you usually have to change it manually to use up about 90% memory - well my Adobe CS6 anyway. But even my Adobe Photoshop crashes when I am multi-tasking and have too many graphics programs running.