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Should we up grade to Corel X6?
Hi everyone.
We are just looking at upgrading a few items, one of them is Corel.
I`m sure I have read some folk do not like X6
Is this still the case, have issues been resolved?
Is upgrading to X5 an option?we have X3 BTW
denise x
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we use x5 and it takes ages to open,have been told x6 taken even longer
stu -
I have had virtually all versions of Corel and I would not go back to X5. I have a 32 bit i5 machine running W7 Pro and 3 gig of ram so not a super hi spec machine and X6 runs quicker than X5 in general use and at startup. X6 now makes use of multi core processors and 64 bit so if you run one of these machines performance is better still. Connect has been improved as has the import filters. I do digital print but these do not involve absolutely massive files, what I do handle is now quicker than when I used X5 – vinyl work is essentially unchanged.
If you do upgrade make sure you have the latest SP and if you are unsure about the move download the trial, you’ll have 30 days to use it and after that if you decide its not for you, you will still have a CDR viewer 🙂
Alan d -
how slow is slow?
just double clicked on a 30mb print file which opens in corel X5, from clicking to working… 48 seconds, no doubt if I cleared all the background stuff running on my system it would be a whole lot quicker!
I have a XPpro 3gig 2800ghz quad core system, fast but four years old now so prob not that fast!
Hugh
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Ordered
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oh i have many licenses but X3 is still being used here, its fast! i written elsewhere reasons, they did release a service pack for X6 but it hasn’t solved the powerclip slowness bug and therefore we are not using it.
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Dave, can you elaborate on your powerclip issue? I use powerclips and I’m not seeing speed issues, are you clipping many objects, photos, groups. I’m assuming your saying X3 can do these faster is that correct
Alan D -
hi alan, i might need to find out what this file they are talking out is in the last post. The first service pack didn’t address it.
http://coreldraw.com/forums/p/32684/167036.aspxAlso networking issues with CDRx6 and file open and file save, huge bug
http://coreldraw.com/forums/p/32799/164114.aspx#164114 -
I’ve just opened a 787meg Corel file with lenses, objects and bitmaps in 78 seconds, I did some alterations and resaved which took 4 minutes 20 seconds but bear in mind that corel now saves in the background so you can continue to work although if I’m honest I like to see large saves complete before I do anything too complicated. This is saved locally anything to go on a network drive is copied over later.
I placed contents in a Powerclip, edited and generally moved about the powerclip and it seemed ok, I wouldn’t normally have the need to put such large files in a Powerclip but apart from the obvious time required to work with such large files I didn’t feel it was that bad.
I don’t normally work with files that big to be fair but what I do work with (and that does include digital work) X6 seems snappier/faster and more stable but probably does work better with Win7 rather than XP
Alan D
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