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.
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.
Joe, I use CorelDraw X4 and Photoshop CS2.
My machine is an P4 3GHz with 3GB of RAM and an Nvidia GeForce 6500.
I have 881 fonts in my Font folder, 70% of them are Chinese fonts which BFN won't recognise.
I have another 2000+ fonts on another drive.
I have live text turned on.
My result: I have no font or performance issue with any of the program I use.
And I can claim that my Windows is clean and running near to the optimum level.
So it's not a Corel issue. It's the particular hardware and/or software environment of a particular user.
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michael said: Joe, I use CorelDraw X4 and Photoshop CS2. My machine is an P4 3GHz with 3GB of RAM and an Nvidia GeForce 6500. I have 881 fonts in my Font folder, 70% of them are Chinese fonts which BFN won't recognise.
I think you misunderstand the point. First, like I said earlier, it's not the number of fonts installed. Enough people have stated that they have plenty of fonts installed, including myself. The problem is I'm pointing out is, very specifically, the type of fonts you have installed. That is specifically, distressed fonts. Not Chinese fonts. I actually have Japanese fonts which are very, very similar, and in some cases, the same as the Chinese fonts and they are not a problem. It's only the distressed fonts. Install some of those, then try to view them live in Draw or Paint. Then let us know what you find. What I find is that Corel Draw can't even get the font drop down list to drop down. It chokes and dies for a minute to view the font list. If you manage to get that far, try to scroll the font list and it will choke and struggle all over again. During that time, the processor hit skyrockets. Check the task manager to see the processor usage go through the roof. After Corel Draw/Paint manages to view these fonts in the drop down, processor usage goes back to normal but if you try to scroll the list again, it does it all over again.
To solve this problem. Disable this option to view fonts live in Corel Draw/Paint.