Mastering AI Art: The No BS Way with Stable Diffusion
1. Make sure you're using Nvidia RTX 2000 Series or above with at least 8GB of VRAM.
2. Install the Nvidia Cuda 11.7 Toolkit - Link: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-11-7-0-download-archive?target_os=Windows
3. Go to the ComfyUI Github Repo: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI
4. Download and uncompress (7zip) the "Standalone" Windows release: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI/releases/download/latest/ComfyUI_windows_portable_nvidia_cu121_or_cpu.7z
5. Open the readme file and you will notice that you can use cpu and nvidia.bat files. You can use the Nvidia one.
6. In the readme file you will also find a link for the Stable Diffusion checkpoint file. Download it: https://huggingface.co/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5/blob/main/v1-5-pruned-emaonly.ckpt
7. Grab your checkpoint file, go back to the ComfyUI folder, models, checkpoints and drop your ckpt files there
8. Open command prompt as admin, copy the folder path for ComfyUI, type "cd", space, paste the path and press enter
9. now run the bat file "./run_nvidia_gpu.bat'
10. You can download more models from civitai.com
11. Enjoy :)