Re: How To Install Corel Draw 12 On Windows 7
Sandrine Willert
Its slow doing everything. Slow to process things in an art project.
As work gets more complicated (more elements on the screen) things get worse.
Even zooming in and out while working is slow.
And whenever it doesn't like a certain process, it just shuts down Corel.
I have run Corel repair system, and even reinstalled Corel just to be sure the software is okay.
- When serious errors occur in Coreldraw, the program goes into a perpetual processing mode
as if its trying to complete a process, but never does. You have to 'end task' the program.
I've never seen anything out of the ordinary when I open Task Manager.
Either 'the program is not responding' or no comment, as if the program is still operating normally (however its in some state of freeze).
OR
it just shuts down, disappears from the screen and you are staring at your desktop.
Then you hope, when you restart Corel, that a temporary saved backup exists and is offered to you.
My issues are just slow and jerky operation, and as on-screen artwork gets more complicated, the software
gets slower, jerkier, glitchier...as I move my view around my project, it seems to have trouble rendering.
Momentary black areas appear before th artwork renders again. Zoom in or out and it freezes momentarily,
or jumps jerkily in or out.
- Event Viewer...I am not really sure of where to look or what to look at, but I went through some Error lists
and I can't find CoreDRW mentioned anywhere. There appears to be thousands of errors logged, reported, etc.
Mostly system things, it seems.
- Nothing is overheating...in fact I have been monitoring temps since i got the new board and cpu...
and because of new fan controllers, I was curious as to what temps the main fans ramped up or down,
and when the GPU fans kicked in.
I also have a low end cooler on the CPU for the time being, so I want to monitor the CPU temp.
I'm happy that it is staying below nominal during various gaming and other things.
- Corel is the only program of this type that I use.
My games all appear to working well...90fps, stable, etc
I have some smaller programs that I use for art and related work, but they are pretty simple stuff as far as rendering things
or dealing with complicated vector and bitmap artwork.
I don't work in 3D (CAD, etc)
Two weeks ago I was running an old FX8300 cpu on an M3A78-CM mainboard with 8GB ram and the same RX580 GPU.
An old system, definitely not a powerhouse, and it struggled a bit in gaming...
but it ran CorelDRW with only a few issues. Just the standard Corel glitches and ocassional Corel related hang-ups.
But it didn't appear to suffer from the same system related problems I am having now.
I expected this new hardware to drastically improve my already passable CorelDRW operations...but its much worse.
And it all feels like its just not able to keep up and render things on the screen.
As a last resort you might want to do an Ingrade Repair of Windows. This is basically running the current Windows Installer while on the Desktop. It will replace your Windows Folder with an new one but with all of your 3rd party Apps intact. Than if you want you can run Windows Disk Clean to delete the old Windows.old folder to save space or leave there in case you want to revert back to that Windows again. I believe Windows automatically deletes that folder after a certain amount of days.
On my computer I have a somewhat similar issue. Sometimes a program would freeze for a second and then return to the desktop as though it was never opened. This happens with Firefox or when I use Kodi occasionally.
On my computer when it freezes for a few seconds especially while watching Kodi my hard drive seems to be running at maximum. Once the short freeze is over the Hard drive is back to it normal operation.
Once again, if you aren't familiar with working in Corel, then it may be impossible for you to get what I am describing.
Imagine holding a pencil and an art pad...and trying to draw a picture.
It involves leaning in and out constantly, toward and away from the page (*zoom in and out with the scroll wheel).
Now imagine trying to do this on a rocking boat thats also banging against the deck...
you keep losing the ability to focus on one spot, grab a detail,
or move your view in and out fluidly and smoothly.
Things get momentarily choppy or slow to react.
Functions are not responsive and then you suddenly lurch ahead as the graphics catch up with what you just did...
or they don't, things just don't happen, and you are left trying to complete the action.
Honestly, this is more like a graphics card that can't keep up in a game.
(although not like game lag)
And it only started with this new motherboard and cpu.
I'm questioning whether Adrenalin is the correct software to have installed?
Is this just for games, and may be hurting my Corel performance?
Or can I adjust things for Corel (from within Adrenalin)?
In your case, Thanks for explaining it in layman terms the issue you are having with CorelDraw. I can see how it can be frustrating having a newer more powerful and faster computer and CorelDraw is worse.
AutoCAD and VIZ are now licensed on annual terms and it will not let me install and run my 2008 version license anymore. Since I have been retired for over 12 years now I really don't have much use for either program and will not pay for an annual license.
This is purely a CorelDRW versus new MotherBoard issue.
As I mentioned, minor issues from before are now major issues.
I looked into whether I can tweak Adrenalin and the GPU for the Corel application.
But Adrenalin appears to only be for Gaming apps.
I wasn't aware of this.
The main difference between this new MB and my old one, is no onboard Graphics.
I am now relying solely on my GPU...which I assumed I was doing before...but I wonder if Corel relied to any extent on the onboard graphics of my old board? Is that possible?
Obviously, the onboard graphics would not have been very capable, but I could still run CorelDRW without my Graphics Card installed. Not very well, I admit, but it did work.
"Temporary files are used by applications to facilitate a number of functions, but are primarily used to swap information from RAM to the hard disk (and vice versa). Often when applications crash, these files are left in the Temp folder and must be removed manually. To delete temporary files, do the following:
NOTE: Certain files may not delete if applications which access those specific temporary files are open. If this occurs, simply reboot the computer and repeat the steps listed above, ensuring that all programs are closed.
"When working with large files in CorelDRAW, it may be required to increase the amount of memory allocated to the application. Default memory allocation is set to 25%. This can be increased to as high as 50%, though it is not recommended to exceed this level. Increasing this setting beyond 50% will reduce the amount of RAM being used by Windows, decreasing performance of the entire computer."
It doesn't run slow all the time, since it can be doing many things or nothing at any given moment.
Its more about how it now stumbles, slows and struggles, when doing complicated tasks and rendering
...things that it didn't do quite this bad with my olde motherboard and CPU.
I was just expecting it to perform much better when the work gets complicated, to render faster,
to complete tasks a bit easier. Tasks as simple as zooming in and out on artwork, when that
artwork has become complicated with lots of elements and layers.
As I said, it may have stumbled a little in days past, and now it struggles a lot.
As I said earlier, it was a fresh install of Corel...and then I tried the Repair option
(a built in feature on the Corel disc, that allows for a full rewrite of files and fixes)
And after no improvement, I reinstalled Corel. All within a week, and right after new Windows install.
Corel is a glitchy buggy program...always has been...and while some claim that things get better with newer
versions, I have found that each has its own similar and distinct bugs.
I'm not expecting it to work perfectly.
I'm just expecting things to have improved with the new motherboard and cpu, and they've gotten worse.
I have all the normal things running in the background, nothing that shouldn't be,
and when working in Corel I always have other files and folders open.
I might be on the web searching for reference and images,
plus I often have other software waiting to be used (CorelPhotoPaint, Fotosizer, Cone3D, Winamp, Thunderbird)
None of this has been an issue, or a related issue, in the past...
although I am aware of available CPU and Memory, and sometimes when performing and important function, like saving a file,
I would have to be tolerant and patient while tasks completed.
Things should have gottent better, not worse.
As I said, its not about the overall operation of Corel...its about doing certain things in Corel while working on a project.
And having those functions and events happen smoother and quicker.
Once again, if you understood the work I do in Corel, you might understand me better.
Art projects can get pretty complicated, with all the elements, nodes, layers, fills and textures...
and constantly rendering this stuff while you add and remove things, move around the workspace, zoom your view in and out,
requires a lot of processing power.
I am a long time member at Corel forums, as well as a couple of tech forums.
I was already a member here too (I think).
The issue of AMD compatibility with Corel has been raised hundreds of times.
Many Corel users swear that AMD processors are just not compatible with Corel products.
I seriously considered switching to an Intel CPU until Ryzen appeared. (I thought it would be a no-brainer)