several issues #3051
Description
Several issues, I don't even know what to title this.
I've noticed some minor UI changes. I was on an older build, from this past spring no longer know what commit or version it was. It still required I select the text encoder and vae and stuff if I want to use Flux, or select the SDXL vae if I want to use SDXL. No longer necessary, which is convenient. I had to reinstall Windows because an OS update went wrong, then I reinstalled ForgeUI later and I am back in business for a couple months. Then I try installing video-related extensions I never tried before from the Extensions tab recently and instantly regret it when ForgeUI will no longer boot up. I deeply regret not making a backup copy of the "perfected" install beforehand. After a few attempts to reinstall and get up and running, now I see I'm on a different version with changed UI elements as I said before. On this version, everything seems to work, but SDXL gens are now many, many times slower and may cause ForgeUI to crash in the console, requiring that I restart ForgeUI. WTF? No issues with SD1.5 and Flux so far.
I had no trouble before in creating all the 2112x1188 images via hi-res fix in txt2img using either SD1.5 or XL checkpoints as I pleased before I started having these issues. Dreamshaper XL Turbo is giving the most issues so far, Illustrious-based checkpoints seem to work just fine. SDXL gens took my machine a few minutes to do each, now it can take over a half hour, WTF?! SDXL used to run a faster than SD1.5. SD1.5 gens take 2.5min, now SDXL take twice as long as that and Dreamshaper Turbo XL many times more. Before, SDXL checkpoints were close to a whole minute faster and Dreamshaper XL Turbo was also as fast.
Separate issue: Interrupt and Skip randomly stop working after a while and I cannot tell the software to skip the current gen or to just stop. It's really annoying. Restarting ForgeUI fixes this. This has been an issue all year long. I was on Automatic1111 for the longest time until this year and it ran into that issue as well on rare occasion. ForgeUI does this exponentially more often.
Another one: preview image window eventually bugs out and displays the same image no matter what happens, so I have to bring up Explorer to view results rather than seeing a convenient preview in ForgeUI. It just happens randomly after a while. The image displayed is whatever gen it let me preview last before bugging out.
One more: Refiner doesn't seem to do anything. No matter the settings and checkpoint I choose (SD1.5 checkpoints if I am working with SD1.5, SDXL if I am working with SDXL, etc.) it has no effect on the output. I seldom used this on A1111, but at least it worked.
One more: PNG Info tab eventually just stops working and will no longer let me see gen info in any image. It always worked fine in A1111, in ForgeUI it stops working after a while, it just gets stuck on the little loading animation thingie on a seemingly random attempt. I have to restart ForgeUI to get it working again.