Hi, all, I appreciate your suggestions.

I do pencil drawings with an actual pencil on paper. Then I scan the drawings to send to my art programs. I am not really interested in doing pencil drawings any other way. When I did this using my old computer and Xara 32-bit, I had no issues whatsoever.

Also, please remember (and I DO appreciate your help!) that I'm still rather a computer novice, being an old-school illustrator who worked with actual paint, chalks and ink before using art software. I don't know how to update Nvidia and graphics drivers. Can you tell me how? Also, how do I import a bitmap not from my scanner to Xara? My scanner is how I got the image to Xara in the first place.

Also there's this: my Windows 10 program came installed on my new computer. It has a Paint 3D app. Could that be interfering with Xara in some way?