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!
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.
I have found that some Security application include a feature called Resident Shield. These scan everything you open. Many have exception lists. I have added the Corel Applications to that list. Doing so does speed up X3 and X4.
KuttyJoe said:Actually, it's not the computer that has a problem with fonts, it's Draw and Paint and Font Navigator.
It's not a CorelDRAW or FontNagigator problem, it's a Windows issue. Illustrator, QuarkXPress, PageMaker, InDesign and other are similar problems. Most people uses CorelDRAW with more than 3.000 fonts installed, and most people have problems with Quark, Indesign or Illustrator with "only" 800 font. The difference is Windows and its performance
Well, I suppose that's your own experience. I've worked with all of those programs for many years and have never had any sort of font problem. Windows performance is good with all the Adobe stuff and Quark Express while Corel will bring the PC to it's knees if you try to preview a distressed font inside Corel Draw. Disable this option in Draw's preferences and Draw performs normally again. No point in imagining this to be a Windows problem. If it were, we would see the same thing happening when we try to preview a distressed font in any application. So far only Draw and Paint have this problem. Might as well call it like we see it. It's absolutely a Corel problem. One that has gotten worse with each version of Draw.
KuttyJoe said: I've worked with all of those programs for many years and have never had any sort of font problem. Windows performance is good with all the Adobe stuff and Quark Express while Corel will bring the PC to it's knees if you try to preview a distressed font inside Corel Draw.
KuttyJoe, I'm glad you are one CorelDRAW.com members.
It seems CorelDRAW chokes with complex drawings, e.g. with complex chalk brushes, not just distressed fonts. Adobe Illustrator shows high performance and stability with complex drawings.
(Maybe it is a Windows problem, Adobe and Quark know how to deal with it, but Corel doesn't)