Becoming very slow

HI,
I've been doing some quite complex drawings which have between 5,000 and 15,000 objects.
At this level, I'm finding Xara Designer Pro so slow that it is unusable. For example, it takes 10 minutes to export a 300 DPI JPEG. Just saving the documents takes about 5 minutes. Resizing takes 2-3 minutes.
The CPU meter reads about 20% during the various activities and the RAM usage is not significant. I have a Core i7 with 16 GM RAM and a GTX specialised graphics card in the $3000 laptop I use. I don't think the issue is with the hardware. My workflow is trashed. I've been a Xara fan for a long time, but I may have to go back to Adobe and Corel.
Any ideas?

it isn't likely to be your hardware unless you are running an old 32bit vrsion of windows - xara is not one of those programs that can take full advantage of all of your harware resource beyond a given point - but make sure you are using the 64bit version on 64bit windows

Unuseable? - I've been around long enough to remember when it took 30-45 miniutes to redraw in Photoshop, using the latest version and with a computer powerful for it's day - it's not clear what you are doing exactly, but if you push a program to it's limits it will slow down

if you do try corel or adobe it would be interesting to hear whether they are actually any quicker comparing like with like....

Besides any unlocked live filters will call it a day too
The program tries to redraw at every action you do.

true - locking and hiding layers you are not using might speed up the redrawing, [xara is not unique in that]; working in solo mode might help as well.. it depends on the actual workflow...

Thanks for replies.
Yes using 64 Bit version on 64 bit Windows 10.
The locking of layers might have merit. I'll try.
Yes, agree: with this level of complexity, Corel and Illustrator might grind down also. Not my experience in the past though.
I'm not using any live filters.
Solo mode - I'll look at that.

One other thing might help - set the Live Drag Indicator to off - see the Help "Indicators".

I have also tried scaling when the View Quality was Outline.

With 18,000+ objects, layering was by far the most effective approach.

Acorn

I had the same slow problem very recently when using Xara Designer Pro X v.17 on a pretty powerful computer. The slow-down was linked to a self made annual calendar file. I assumed it was because of the extensive graphics I'd included on the calendar file To day I was fiddling with a recent icon I'd added to the calendar. (Thinking back, I realized the slow down started happening after I'd added this little icon to the calendar. Anyway a Xara warning message came up saying in effect that this little icon was big trouble, so I deleted the graphic -Nothing happened. I deleted the linked text and abracadabra! the slow-down problem immediately disappeared.I'm sorry to tell you that I didn't make a note of the name of the particular font I was using so the only help I offer is to say watch out for Xara warning messages. Never ignore them. I certainly won't in future.

i often import from ACAD > PDF > Xara, this can be a pita, if the lines are millions of dots.
i did try other programs they are not better.
the best way for me, try to freeze this objects in ACAD (if possible),
cut them away in a special PDF editor (if possible),
delete them in Xara (if u have time).

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I deleted the linked text and abracadabra! the slow-down problem immediately disappeared.

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This may be the case. A couple of versions back I and several members had big issues when using the font Calibri. Fixed now but it was a nasty slow-down.