From 30afc863cbdfa26cb62684e2a0a0b0bdc0c27aed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: comfyanonymous <comfyanonymous@protonmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 13:47:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add tip to run FLUX on low memory systems.

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 flux/README.md | 4 ++++
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 The VAE can be found [here](https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell/blob/main/ae.sft) and should go in your ComfyUI/models/vae/ folder.
 
+#### Tips if you are running out of memory:
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+You can set the weight_dtype in the "Load Diffusion Model" node to fp8 which will lower the memory usage by half but might reduce quality a tiny bit.
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 ## Flux Dev
 
 You can find the Flux Dev diffusion model weights [here](https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev). Put the flux1-dev.sft file in your: ComfyUI/models/unet/ folder.