Stable Diffusion for broke people?

3 years ago by Ganbat to c/stable_diffusion

Since the shutdown of SD on Colab, is there any option for running SD without disposable income?

I know about StableHorde, but it doesn't seem to really... Well, work. Not for people without GPUs to gain Kudos on at least. It always gives a 5+ minute long queue and then ends up erroring out before that time runs out.

EDIT: It took me a while to set up. but as it turns out, my best option is in fact my 10-year-old computer with a 2GB AMD card. Using the DirectML fork of the WebUI with --lowvram runs pretty damn well for me. It's not as fast as Colab was, but it's not slow by any means. I guess the best advice in the end is, even if you're on a shitbox, try it, your shitbox might surprise you. So take note, though, that running on 2GB Vram doesn't work for everyone, only the luckiest of broke mfs can do that it seems.

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Ganbat 1 point 3 years ago

I struggled to replace a dying HDD this month, there's no way I can afford a SD-capable GPU.

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BareHandedPoopScoop 3 points 3 years ago

You don't need a GPU. It'll just be a bit slower.

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scrubbles 6 points 3 years ago

....a lot slower to be honest

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Ganbat 1 point 3 years ago

I never knew it was possible to run on CPU. Well, thanks for the idea, but that doesn't seem usable. SD outputs are terrible 9 of 10 times, and at ten+ minutes a generation...

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domi 4 points 3 years ago

If you use ComfyUI you can queue as many images as you want, so you can let it run over night. Not ideal but probably the best solution without GPU.

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ShrimpsIsBugs 3 points 3 years ago

Since the shutdown of SD on Colab

What happened? I'm out of the loop

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brianorca 5 points 3 years ago

Colab no longer supports or allows Stable Diffusion on their free tier. You can still buy time for SD, though.

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altima_neo 2 points 3 years ago

Have you tried running it on yoru PC? Comfy UI seems to run it on a potato

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Ganbat 1 point 3 years ago

I didn't have any hope for being able to run it locally, but regardless, I've been getting it set up on and off all day. Well, as it turns out, I'm lucky enough to be able to generate with DirectML and 2GB VRAM in a not-terrible amount of time.

To test, I generated a couple of simple prompts. This one is from 'a poster for Sex the movie'. It's not NSFW, but I'd say it's suggestive... in a weird, warped way. I didn't use any negatives to test.

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whitecapstromgard 1 point 3 years ago

I think Automatic1111 runs on most CPUs, but you need a lot of ram.

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