ERNIE IMAGE ULTRA THE NEW AI KING FINALLY HERE! < 8GB VRAM REQUIRED!
Hey everyone! I've created a 1-click installer for ERNIE IMAGE, the NEW TEXT TO IMAGE AI KING! Most people are already sleeping on this model are completely wrong. Yes, Z-IMAGE-TURBO looks better out of the box... BUT after pushing ERNIE IMAGE further, I realized very quickly that this model has absolutely insane potential....because..
ERNIE IMAGE is not only fast, ultra sharp, amazing at prompt following, and able to run on LESS THAN 8GB OF VRAM... BUT it is also one of the easiest and fastest model I have ever trained. A single lora trained on 12gb of VRAM in 30 MINS! And all of that with insane quality! Try beating that... which means this model has the potential to become an absolute beast once the community starts really cooking with it, hence why everyone just completely disregarded that model because THIS MODEL IS AMAZING!
You can check out the video right here: https://youtu.be/B6dq0Q5UAaE
The workflow: https://www.patreon.com/posts/156026284
The installer of course automates the entire install process for comfyUI and the models downloads!
LOCAL INSTALL!!! RECOMMENDED TO START FROM SCRATCH
Download the ERNIE-IMAGE_ULTRA-COMFYUI-MANAGER_AUTO_INSTALL.bat
Run the bat file
Wait for the install to finish
The webui will launch, load the Z-IMAGE_BASE_ULTRA_WORKFLOW-V2.json file and there you go😎
DON'T FORGET TO GO UPDATE COMFYUI BY GOING INSIDE THE UPDATE FOLDER AND RUNNING THE COMFYUI UPDATE BAT FILE!!!!
IF YOU ALREADY HAVE COMFYUI INSTALLED USING A PREVIOUS INSTALLER:
Download the ERNIE-IMAGE_ULTRA-MODELS-NODES_INSTALL.bat and place it in the ComfyUI_windows_portable\ComfyUI folder
Run the bat file
Wait for the install to finish
???
Profit 😎
IF YOU GET AN ERROR WHEN LAUNCHING COMFYUI AFTER USING THIS INSTALLER SAYING "AssertionError: Torch not compiled with CUDA enabled" it's ok don't panic.
Just go inside the python embedded folder, click on the folder path, type cmd press enter, this will bring the command prompt window and there type:
python.exe -m pip uninstall torch
python.exe -s -m pip install --upgrade torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128
--->replace cu128 by your cuda version (if you don't know your cuda version just open a new cmd window and type nvcc --version it will then tell you at the end Cuda compilation tools, release 12.8, V12.8.93 or something different like 12.6, in that case just use cu126 instead of cu128)
IF YOU ARE USING RUNPOD:
Create an account if you haven't already: Runpod
Click on Pod (on the left side) then click deploy
Choose a GPU with at least 24gb of VRAM (4090 is best), click here for the comfyui template (aitrepreneur/comfyui), then edit the template and choose 80gb for both the container and volume disk, then deploy on demand
Go to my pods, wait for everything to finish and then click "connect", then "Connect to HTTP SERVICE port 3000" and click on the manager to update comfyui and restart it
Then go to the port 8888, go inside the comfyui folder and then drag and drop the ERNIE-IMAGE_ULTRA-AUTO_INSTALL-RUNPOD.sh file on the left side of the UI then click on the "Terminal" icon on the right side on the UI
Copy and paste these two lines then press enter:
chmod +x ERNIE-IMAGE_ULTRA-AUTO_INSTALL-RUNPOD.sh
./ERNIE-IMAGE_ULTRA-AUTO_INSTALL-RUNPOD.sh
Wait for everything to be installed
Go back to the port 3000 and click on the manager and restart it
Load the ERNIE-IMAGE-ULTRA-WORKFLOW.json file and there you go😎
Also use the command:
tail -f comfyui.log
inside the workspace/logs to get the real time logs so that you always know when the install is done. It will then ask you to restart, so click on that restart button, wait for the webui to reboot, click refresh once it's done and there you go.
As always, supporting me on Patreon allows me to keep creating helpful resources like this for the community. Thank you for your support - now go have some fun😉!