As soon as you start saving a file, you can immediately start doing other things as the save is performed in the background. This means a feature can take advantage of multi-core processors or even hyperthreaded processors to perform a function much faster. Why is this a requirement? CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 has supported for multiple threads. Just so you know, these instructions have been available in processors for five years or more.
I told you how to find out if you had SSE2 in a post last weekend on the CPU-Z Processor Information Utility.
If you don’t, you won’t even be allowed to install CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5. You must have a processor that supports the SSE2 instruction set. Let’s forget the processors listed and let’s talk about the real requirement. I’m guessing most of your couldn’t name what processor you have so this requirement is a bit of a mystery to you. While that could certainly change, I wouldn’t expect to see a native 64-bit version until at least the next release since it is a major overhaul. NET services which are part of more recent service packs.ĬorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 is a 32-bit application and there is no native 64-bit version available. While it isn’t spelled out, CorelDRAW does require the latest release of the. Corel does specify you need all of the latest service packs for Windows.
It will work on both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors of Windows. Specifically it will run on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. That said, it does seem to work quite well using Boot Camp or Parallels to run Windows.Īs I said, you must have Windows. If you do run it on a Mac, Corel won’t officially support it.
Mac users, I am simply the messenger so please don’t shoot me as I have nothing to do with this decision.
If you have a Mac, you will need to install Windows on it to run CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5. Let’s start with the biggest hardware requirement.