I am using 2 machines: Surface Pro 4 (I7, 16GB Ram, 512 SSD) and a new Alienware 15 R2 (I7 6820, 32GB Ram, NVidia 980, 1TB SSD).
Both machine are experiencing the same issues with Draw X8 freezing up when trying to open a file (any file), and whatever this Font Manager X8 mess is, that program is a crash waiting to happen.
Uninstalled, re-installed, no benefit.
I wonder if anyone else is having any issues.
Both machines were previously running X7 without issue. Looks like I'll be going back to what works. I wonder if a refund is possible.
Bob
How are you fonts stored? Locally on a network? Are you hardwired or wireless? How many fonts?
David Bevins said:I know on another thread one person had added c:\windows to the font manager. As it watches folders for changes and windows creates temp files constantly, well imagine the result. Maybe you have a folder in the font manger pointed to a high traffic folder?
Yes, I was thinking on the same thread. The old FontManager allows to search the entire hard disk for fomnts, since is not watching folders constantly
kestrel79 said:Claude, Where do you recommend to store fonts so CFM performs best? We have a lot of fonts here at work on everyone's machines, and have them located in the "windows C: > Fonts" folder. Is this a good place for a lot of fonts with x8 CFM or no?
A sort answer: no, it's the worst place. if you place a font under Windows/Fonts folder, you're installing the font. All the fonts. All fonts will be available for all programs. And it's not good to install a lot of fonts, 400 installed fonts or less is enough. Too much installed fonts takes a lot of memory, and it will make your system dlow down.
Since CorelDRAW X8 doesn't need to install fonts in order to use it, you can place your fonts on a separate folder on your hard disk. Something like "C:\typography" (I use C:\Letras, in Spanish). On theis folder you can place each font you have or download. Then, you will go to Fontmanager and add this folder this folder to the places that CorelDRAW will be monitorizing.it's a bad idea to monitorize the entire hard disk... that means to be constantly working on the background, and of course that will make your performance slow down also.