ULTRAFORGE Beta released now to test and try yourself

I have seen that today October 18 has been released the new Ultraforge first beta version available to download free for 30 days to test and try yourself before buying it on preorder

Download Ultraforge beta from here

I thought that there would be a new post about this news in the forum, but there is not, So I put it here for anyone to know

Sorry that I will not have time to test it, but for anyone interested it would be really good to have some tutorials to show it works and how to get the most from the beta so you can decide that you really like it and want to buy it

For what it's worth, what's there is looking pretty great. The bones are there and they seem well designed and intentioned.

trying to add checkpoints from the civitai link according to your description under "Hundreds of custom checkpoints to improve image quality", i get these messages:

Unable to extract checkpoint file 'G:\Art\Ultraforge\SD 1.5 Extras\Checkpoints\dreamshaper_8.safetensors'.

Load model from C:\Users\Public\Documents\Ultraforge\Cache\Checkpoints\deliberate_v3\embedder\model.onnx failed:Load model C:\Users\Public\Documents\Ultraforge\Cache\Checkpoints\deliberate_v3\embedder\model.onnx failed. File doesn't exist

after adding the safetensors file to the folder specified above (there are fingerprints in there now) i get the same message.

my ultraforge folder is not on C.

pls advise how to load checkpoints.

apart from that i get a lot of app crashes when trying to render. this seems to happen as long as SD 1.5 text to image node is still highlighted. otherwise rendering works alright.

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Ilmeni wrote: Unable to extract checkpoint file 'G:\Art\Ultraforge\SD 1.5 Extras\Checkpoints\dreamshaper_8.safetensors'.

Please provide the civitai link to this specific checkpoint.

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Ilmeni wrote: this seems to happen as long as SD 1.5 text to image node is still highlighted.

Oh, we've got numerous report that it crashes during rendering but you are the first to actually give any details. We'd really appreciate if you send us the auto-generated bug report and write the steps to reproduce it in the comments section.

To everyone: saying "it doesn't work" or "crashes a lot" doesn't help at all, since the program works fine for us. Saying "it crashes every time when you do this and that in this specific way" is very helpful. If anyone simply wants to complain, that's fine; if you want to actually help with development, please provide detailed steps on reproducing your issue.

thank you GMM, here is the link to the checkpoint at civitai :
https://civitai.com/models/4384/dreamshaper

but i got the same problem with the other 2 checkpoints i downloaded from civitai...

i will detail the crash issue as soon as i test again... am at a different computer right now and would need to download ultraforge beta again.

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GMM wrote: Oh, we've got numerous report that it crashes during rendering but you are the first to actually give any details. We'd really appreciate if you send us the auto-generated bug report and write the steps to reproduce it in the comments section. To everyone: saying "it doesn't work" or "crashes a lot" doesn't help at all, since the program works fine for us. Saying "it crashes every time when you do this and that in this specific way" is very helpful. If anyone simply wants to complain, that's fine; if you want to actually help with development, please provide detailed steps on reproducing your issue.

I'm honestly very disappointed in this seemingly combative response, especially given the previous acknowledgement by your staff of the severity of issues with this beta release.

a.) no, they are _not_ "the first to actually give any details"; others have said quite plainly that the app crashes within seconds of opening (as in, the user doing nothing), generating the default node more than once with no changes, providing the actual prompts that are causing issues, etc.; we even provided our findings of workarounds, let alone reproducibility

b.) just because this user actually _had_ changed something, was using a custom model, etc. doesn't take anything at all away fr om the very real issues that tons of others have reported, though your response very much indicates otherwise

c.) we would love to have been providing more detailed feedback, but again, as was acknowledged by your own staff, the bug report tool didn't even work until today, and some of us were begging to know wh ere the logs were getting output so we could send them to you

d.) telling sometimes non-technical users of your application (that truly only exists to simplify the sometimes complicated process of running SD locally) that they're not helping when they tell you what they are experiencing is ridiculous, and honestly insulting

e.) the good ol' "works on my machine" while essentially telling your (very large) "complaining" user base to do better is far less mature than what I would have expected from such an established company (one that I've supported for over a decade), especially when again, it's been commented numerous times by your own staff that this release was horrible

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STEPH08 wrote: SOLUTION: fixed !! I have a hybrid system, for unknown reasons the app was not using the graphics acceleration of the Nvidia card. I manually changed the nvdia setting for the app from Auto Selection to High Performance.

You're gonna have to give me more details then that. I don't see any settings inside of Ultraforge to configure anything.

A screenshot or something would be helpful.

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Mister Snarl wrote: A screenshot or something would be helpful.

ok. see above

Just to complete test report. After reinstalling todays version the program already crashed when pushing the render button with default start settings. I'm happy to be constructive and share error screens and bug reports but since attaching html, jpg and png files do not work with the "Attach file..." function (maybe someone can explain how they managed!?) I''ll have to wait for a different way to submit my work....

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Mister Snarl wrote: Do you have two nvidia cards by chance in your system?

No, I have the integrated Intel GPU and the discrete Nvidia rtx3080Ti.

I would like to know how much VRam you need to render 768 x 768 images or more. 16GB VRam is not enough.

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GMM wrote: Thanks for the details, the devs are working on the issue. For now you can't load checkpoints if your installlation folder is not on the system drive, the fix is in the works.

ok, thank you, that's what i suspected could be the reason... wish you all good luck with programming ultraforge!

The UI is a big step back from filter forge at the moment - that node text!
Can I not start with an image or blank bitmap?
Is it all stable diffusion focused for now?

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