How To Run Stable Diffusion 2.0 On Your Local PC — No Code Guide

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Stability AI’s popular image generator, Stable Diffusion, released a brand new version 2.0 a couple of days ago. The new version brings numerous advancements and improvements over the previous release. The new depth detection and the better text-to-image model in OpenCLIP are the features I am most excited about.

Check out this article to see the full list of what’s new in SD 2.0.

In this article, I am going to show you how you can try the new version on your local PC.

Warning: This guide has no programming involved, but it’s not going to be straightforward either. So go grab a coffee or a snack while you follow along with the tutorial.

System Requirements

• Windows 10/11 OS
• Nvidia GPU RTX with at least 12 GB of VRAM
• 25 GB of local disk space

Note: The model can still run even on 8 GB of VRAM, but you will be limited to 256x256 resolution.

Setup Your Environment

• Download and install Anaconda here
• Download and install git here
• Install the latest Pytorch

conda install pytorch==1.12.1 torchvision==0.13.1 -c…