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I refuse to spend any money and would rather not make an account. My laptop is also pretty weak so any programs are likely out of the question.

I refuse to spend any money and would rather not make an account. My laptop is also pretty weak so any programs are likely out of the question.

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Is there a local prog that can be used to generate aI? I heard there's a PS plugin; I have a decent device I use for ps, handles 3d pretty well.

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I have been using https://github.com/LykosAI/StabilityMatrix for a few months. It acts as a wrapper, manager, and installer, for several image generation interfaces.

I have a GTX 1070 8GB that does quite well. I have heard of 900 series cards working. Not to sure about AMD cards. I know on Linux they work well but, on Windows they had/have some issues that have gotten better recently. Most generation interfaces let you use CPU, but that is super slow in most cases.

EDIT: I forgot to remind, these things can EAT harddrive space.

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There's not much out there for AMD on the windows side. Some programs are available on Linux and tend to have better performance to boot. That said the experience going from an Nvidia card to an AMD is night and day.

With my old 1080 I just installed an application from an exe and it just worked. I was up and running in 2 minutes and putting out good stuff.

On my current 6900XT it's a neverending saga of bullshit and the results are worse.

AMD just fucking sucks with AI. The raw power is there but all the programs where written with Cuda in mind so AMD suffers. There's some hope with a MS collaboration using Olive that is supposed to greatly increase performance and let you use Cuda based models, but I couldn't get it work. Also my boot is out of space since there's no option to set an alternate drive for the models. That might have something to do with it.

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Also my boot is out of space since there's no option to set an alternate drive for the models.

Have you tried symlinks?

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As said symlinks are the way to go. The manager I posted above uses symlinks to share models across the interfaces you use with it.

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Thanks, I'll look at the link you provided. Some of the latest ai generated stuff is really top shelf stuff