I am running Vista and have an i7 chip with 3 gigs of ram and a 1 gig video cars...Games fast (according to my Kids) I try and use crel x3 and it is hitchy and slow to react. I have already tried the patch sugested by corel and it did nothing!
I built this computer because I wanted fast.....I can still think faster than corel reacts!
Help me figure this out and you will be my new hero!
Oh my!
I think you need to find a different bunch of "graphic buddies", Victor!!!
Michael gave you good FN instructions and Ariel gave you a good list of other areas to check out.
Let us know (your new graphic buddies) how you're doing.
Yup....You are right! If this is true.....
But I just can't believe that fonts would slow down a quad core's thinking..Why do my kids always tell me that this is such a freakin fast gaming machine...and them corel does this to me?
I have had other sugestions such as... Partitioning my hard drive... and allocating more ram to corel.
I just can't believe that you would need to go search for fonts on your desktop and drop them in corel...my god this will slow things down considerably.
Victor Hill said:I just can't believe that fonts would slow down a quad core's thinking..
The problem is not the processor's power, is about Windows
Victor Hill said:Why do my kids always tell me that this is such a freakin fast gaming machine...and them corel does this to me?
Games don't uses hundreds of fonts, only need a good graphics card and a fast processor
Victor Hill said:I have had other sugestions such as... Partitioning my hard drive... and allocating more ram to corel.
Partitioning the hard drive is good for global performance, but there's not difference with CorelDRAW. And the option of increase the amount of memory under Tool/Options is not longer valid.
What you need is to improve your Windows, this is the most important way to increase the speed of CorelDRAW. Also, some antivirus (such as Norton or Panda) requires a lot of Windows' free resources. Also, you can specify a bigger SWAP file for a better performance
So...How do I go about improving Windows? I have already up graded to premium. SWAP What is that?
Please ...if you have time to explain...enlighten this poor ***...I am at my wits end and I have a huge project I need to complet and just do not have the patience to wait for corel to think....
Thank you so much!
O.K. folks...I just counted my fonts in the pulldown box in my corel x3...the grand total is 681...
This is too many?
Victor Hill said: O.K. folks...I just counted my fonts in the pulldown box in my corel x3...the grand total is 681... This is too many?
681 typefaces...but most of them have also normal, italic, bold an bold italic. So, the total number of fonts under Windows / fonts perhaps is more than this
Victor Hill said:SWAP What is that?
Swap is also called "Virtual memory": double-click in the System icon in Control Panel / Performance tab, click the Virtual Memory button, select "let me specify...", then select a bigger space.
Now we are getting somewhere....Thank you my friend!
How do I do the font thing?
Sorry for being such a menso....
I've never messt with this stuff before!
Actually, it's not the computer that has a problem with fonts, it's Draw and Paint and Font Navigator. I use Draw, Paint, Illustrator, Photoshop, a ton of related applications, font managers, audio applications, games, etc, etc. I've identified a few problems. Draw and Paint (X4 being the absolute worst), and Font Navigator. With Draw and Paint, if you disable their live font previewing, you shouldn't have any problem with those either. Illustrator and Photoshop have no problem at all. I currently have 1684 fonts, mostly the fancy, distressed ones that absolutely bring Draw and Paint to their knees. I've had as many as 2400 fonts on this particular machine. No problems outside of Draw/Paint/Font Navigator. Font Navigator shouldn't be used to install a lot of fonts. I recommend freeware Font Frenzy or Font Viewer. All my machines were set up similarly. I have two XP boxes here now that I used to use. They both have tons of fonts installed from when I used those machines. Those machines are running well. They get nothing but abuse, no maintenence. There's actually 1 other font issue I've identified. Windows Vista/Windows 7 have a problem just like Draw/Paint when trying to view the distressed fonts. But I never use Windows to install fonts. I use a font manager to both preview and install fonts. The font managers I pointed out have no problem with viewing and installing fonts.