STOP Wasting Time with A1111, Use Forge UI Instead

Forge UI is the BEST alternative for A1111. Here is how to install Forge UI and run it with the new Flux NF4 V2 Model that supports 6GB cards.
A1111 is no longer supported with the latest updates. For everyone overwhelmed with comfyui, this is a great alternative.

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[Elwaves]

Been a Forge user for a long while now and it's worth it for the speed increases over A1111. There was some initial problems with some extensions not working but I found a fork for them tha was Forge compatible. Thankfully, I don't have too many extensions. Once that was sorted I ditched A1111 straight away. Forge continuing to be be updated was great news and the addition of Flux was even better, especially as loras are working with it now.

[stevelasmin]

And A1111 is a solid solution, an idea and a help for so many people... How could one critic that?!

[babak]

there is big a problem! many extensions don't work with this ui.

[Steamrick]

You have somehow failed to mention the main reason for Forge existing in the first place: It is much better at memory management than A1111. Especially with low VRAM cards, it'll run much faster and achieve higher maximum resolutions.
The main disadvantage is that quite a few extensions don't work. Unfortunately, the regional prompter extension is one of those.

[vitkaplin]

Moved from A1111 to Forge about month ago and very satisfied, highly recommend to set Forge while keeping Automatic too.
Speed is much higher like 1.5 times for my scenarios with SDXL/Pony, and it even doesn't overflow 32gb ram like A1111 did.
Note for those who will use Flux with GPU like mine 3070 8Gb (for other memory sizes not sure) to have at least 64Gb ram, in that case it will not use swap and kill lifetime of SSD. In the beginning I had 32Gb ram and it worked, but I noticed it used up to 10Gb of disk space at C drive quite often with image generations, which is quite a lot and for one session it could be more than 100Gb easily, so I decided to upgrade up to 64Gb to be on safe side with SSD lifetime resource (and generally be faster).
About extensions, Regional Prompter doesn't work for sure (but instead you could use SD Forge Attention Couple).
Works fine: ADetailer, Dynamic Prompts, ReActor, Civitai Helper, ar-plusplus, Photopea.

[BuckeyeGuy]

It's amazing how much more I understand about the workings of workflows since switching from A1111 to ComfyUI. All of these Forge settings make so much more sense to me with that Comfy knowledge than I ever understood with A1111.

[tanveerahmad]

shifted to ForgeUI already, working with fluxDev nf8 on my laptop with RTX 3060 6 gigs of vram and 16 gigs of ddr5 ram, it takes around 3 minutes to generate an image, it takes long but the results are great.

[AscendantStoic]

A1111 is still great for SD1.5 and SDXL, I got a ton of extensions installed on it and I have no intention of installing all of them again on Forge (with the exception of Ultimate SD Upscale), I'm currently using Forge mainly for Flux only.

[liquidmind]

NOTE: IN FORGE UI, CONTROL NET STILL WON'T WORK FOR FLUX.

[SamuraiG]

Oh I remember the days so long long ago when A1111 was the new kid on the block and THA BOMB!... how times change.

[TomTom]

Olivio, thanks for another great video! I'm a long-time A1111 user trying to get a handle on using Flux with Forge (because Flux seems to be the way everything is going now). The biggest thing I miss in Forge are some of my extensions. How can I tell which extensions work with Forge as well as A1111? The biggest one I need is a save-state extension so I can save the entirety of my settings and come back later and start where I left off, instead of trying to remember what exactly I had setup before. Any tips in that regard? Thanks!

[TheColonelJJ]

Where have you been!!!?? LOL I've been hunting and pecking for two weeks to put together the pieces. And here you lay it at my feet? Harumph! Love ya! OH! Oh! GGUF? Next video???

[WanderingJoy]

Very nice… your recommendation is meaningful. Can it do LoRA training?

[stevelasmin]

To be true A1111 is a solid pro classic UI. Dozens of people are working on it. And yes, it doesn't support Flux right now. Maybe waiting for something... E.g. for the Pony v7 and Auraflow idk.

[karlderkafer]

Switched to Forge recently. Works nice, just a bit disappointed with the Flux model. And I'm still not able to activate Clip Skip for XL/PONY. Or is it this Clip Skip for SDXL checkbox? Anyway. If you don't want to play around with Flux, you can still use A1111.

[TomiTom]

What about SwarmUI ? I find it even more stable and organised, can you try it please and cover it in a video ?

[bemusedkidney]

I've been using forge with flux for a couple of weeks now. It's perfect for what I need it for.

[RiftWarth]

IMO, it's way easier to setup Forge, Fooocus, SwarmUI, ComfyUI, etc via Stability Matrix. One click install, models can be downloaded via Stability Matrix and shared with the other WebUIs, image output folders can be shared, too and you always get the most up to date version of these WebUIs...at least for Forge, Foocus, and ComfyUI, which I have installed on my PC.

[kaareej]

Thank you! I just did this, but didn't select any vae or text encoders and it generated fine. Maybe those are needed only for normal dev? Seems like they're integrated in the nf4 v2?

[satsu]

They reallyyyy need animatediff working in Forge with all the speed improvements in place