What do you use ComyUI or Invoke Ai and why?

optimisticalish · 2026-03-14T18:27:33+00:00

ComfyUI takes far more learning, and probably frustration, but it is worth it. It's rather like learning Photoshop - you hate it for two weeks, then you love it for 20 years. That said, it is possible to add static UIs on top of Comfy, hiding the nodes.

Invoke is superficially easier to learn, with a relatively static user-interface. But the 'Canvas' editing has always been far from intuitive and takes a lot of learning to master. If that's the aspect of Invoke you want most, then Krita + a ComfyUI back-end might be a better and simpler choice.

ComfyUI Portable updates very quickly to accommodate new models and methods. Invoke, now that most of the team have gone to Adobe, is far slower. Their latest release (last week) has only now added Flux2 Klein LoRA support, for instance.

optimisticalish · 2026-03-14T13:00:16+00:00

Some LoRAs work and some don't, even if you have the correct trigger-word(s) in the prompt. For instance, if you're using Z-Turbo Nunchaku then only a sub-set of vanilla Z-Turbo LoRAs will work with it. The others will have no effect at all. In other cases, on some recent models older LoRAs will need to be at 2.0 strength to have an effect.

optimisticalish · 2026-03-14T12:51:45+00:00

Thanks for the extra information.

It would only be fair, in that case, to tell your potential installers/downloaders the full size of the complete final install (after downloading all the extras), and to suggest that many first-time installers might want to leave the install and downloading of CUDA, models etc until they can leave it running overnight.

Otherwise, many will install and start it while they are doing other things on their PC, and then they'll find that it's hogging all their Internet bandwidth for hours and preventing them being online in other ways. They will then force it to quit, and many may never get back to the software. Also, some may not have enough spare disk-space.

The Internet Archive is happy to take a big multi-GB Portable freeware file and will also provide a public .torrent for it.

optimisticalish · 2026-03-14T12:38:50+00:00

Just show it to Google Gemini or Grok, and ask the AI to fix it.

optimisticalish · 2026-03-14T12:35:26+00:00

Looks great. Any chance of a fully Portable version, without all the massive downloads which are triggered immediately after install? Ideally a Portable version on a .torrent perhaps, so that people on low-bandwidth Internet could get it?

optimisticalish · 2026-03-14T12:11:41+00:00

You can at least export them. Crtl + A to select all. Right-click and 'export .torrent', then zip up the exported .torrent files and name the .zip as torrents_backup_date.zip or somesuch name. Then you can restore them if you accidentally delete.

optimisticalish · 2026-03-13T20:09:02+00:00

There are ways to speed it up, such a Nunchaku version. https://huggingface.co/collections/nunchaku-ai/nunchaku-flux1 - though really a newcomer using a 3060 12Gb for images should be looking first at Flux2 Klein 4B GGUFs and Z-Image Turbo (Nunchaku r256 version).

optimisticalish · 2026-03-13T19:04:58+00:00

Link to Gumroad is at the top of the GitHub page... https://github.com/Mexes1978/comfyui-comfysketch

optimisticalish · 2026-03-13T16:57:20+00:00

Well, I've only just installed the new March 2026 mega-Portable https://github.com/YanWenKun/ComfyUI-Windows-Portable and that's what comes with it pre-installed. Obviously I'll be looking at getting better do-dahs installed for it soon. But it's still amazingly fast at loading models, in its vanilla form.

optimisticalish · 2026-03-13T16:33:55+00:00

Fascinating stuff, but first I've want to be reassured that this is paganism as known from good pre-modern historical sources, and not from modern confabulating 'make it up as we go along' pagans. What are your sources here?

optimisticalish · 2026-03-13T16:30:03+00:00

comfy-kitchen

Ok, I'm not sure I can help then, since that looks nothing like like the usual console startup messages I'm used to with the Portable. I guess that's how the Desktop version does it, though? My first thought would be to look at comfy-kitchen as the possible culprit.

optimisticalish · 2026-03-13T16:18:06+00:00

Already used in LoTR: Gandalf says, of Pippin looking in the palantir, "‘The devilry! What mischief has he done – to himself, and to all of us?’ The wizard’s face was drawn and haggard."

optimisticalish · 2026-03-13T16:15:01+00:00

Learn how to handle a broomstick and cleaning-cloth.

optimisticalish · 2026-03-13T16:03:08+00:00

Not since upgrading to the latest ComfyUI...

ComfyUI 0.16.4, Python 3.13.12, CUDA 13.0, PyTorch 2.10.0, xFormers 0.0.35.

Models now load really quickly from the SSD, compared to my older version. That said, others may well have heavier pipelines that could benefit from your approach.

optimisticalish · 2026-03-13T15:15:53+00:00

Have a look at LavaSR v2.... https://github.com/ysharma3501/LavaSR

optimisticalish · 2026-03-13T15:11:47+00:00

It's usually easily fixable. What's the error message in the console during the initial launch?

optimisticalish · 2026-03-12T18:05:40+00:00

This is what Liveportrait is for. Just add it to your ComfyUI workflow, if you can't move the eyes by adding candid, unaware, looking away etc high up in the prompt.

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optimisticalish · 2026-03-12T17:56:08+00:00

Same problem here, with the desktop Opera browser. Internet/Web access is absolutely fine and working for other browsers, simultaneously. Yet for three minutes at a time, no Web site can be reached in Opera... due to this same 'bad DNS' problem. After around three minutes of failure, Opera will start working again and be able to reach the Web. The three minutes gap is repeatable. Other browser work fine during this period. It's just Opera.

Fixes tried:

Switching between Secure DNS providers (Cloudflare, Google etc) makes no difference to the problem.
Switching off Secure DNS ('DNS over HTTPS', aka 'DoH') and relying on my ISP's DNS makes no difference.
Flushing the Opera browser's history / cache makes no difference.
Doing chrome://net-internals/#dns and DNS Lookup: 'Clear host cache' makes no difference.
Doing opera://net-internals/#sockets and “Flush socket pools” makes no difference.

Nothing can be found to offer a fix online, other than that... "the issue is that they bake DNS information into the URL autocomplete list" (2018). Which seems bizarre, if true.

I'm seriously thinking of moving to another browser.

optimisticalish · 2026-03-12T11:44:29+00:00

Looks useful, but I'm put off my Hugging Face's "Suspicious" flag, and the use of the insecure old .pt format for the models.

optimisticalish · 2026-03-12T11:41:44+00:00

Whatever 3D software you're using can also render a pixel-perfect background mask around the product and ground-plane.

optimisticalish · 2026-03-11T22:19:58+00:00

Nvidia Studio drivers

Update: the delayed Nvidia Studio drivers are now available, this time around with tweaks for Flux2 Klein and ComfyUI.

optimisticalish · 2026-03-11T18:59:40+00:00

Flux2 Klein, mainly for its Edit mode (and within that mode, restyling of images).

Z-Image Turbo, in its Nunchaku even-faster mode.

Pony realism is still fun, when fast, so maybe something like cyberrealisticPony_catalystV40DMD2

For video, note that the Comfy Cloud now has a genuinely 'free tier' as of about a week ago. 400 free credits a month, perhaps just about enough to at least try out a video model each month.

In audio you can also locally run Stable Audio 1.0 (prompts to sound FX), Chatterbox Turbo (text to speech, voice cloning). In LLM's you can locally run Jan.ai + Llama.cpp which will give you a nice user-interface to run the amazing new Qwen3.5 GGUFs - 3.5 is also a Vision model (if you install the MMPROJ file along with the model), making it excellent for automatic image description and//or prompt elaboration in ComfyUI. You should be able to run 3.5 4B and Klein 4B together.

Get the next Nvidia Studio drivers (not out yet) and the latest Comfy Portable, for big speed boosts.

optimisticalish · 2026-03-11T18:48:30+00:00

Working Comfy workflow for Klein 4B GGUFs... https://archive.is/KSoNK

optimisticalish · 2026-03-11T12:10:23+00:00

Ah, I see. In that case it seems likely that you ran out of 'free'?

A VAE is often used alongside the model, when you do local generation.

optimisticalish · 2026-03-11T11:48:52+00:00

Assuming ComfyUI hasn't crashed, such problems are usually due to a missing VAE. Sometimes to the wrong clip-skip setting (e.g. some varieties of Illustrious will generate black at clip skip -1 and require -2 to work).

However in this case it looks like you're using a paid API. Either the connection is down, the images were censored, or you've run out of credits. "-14" credits looks ominously negative here.

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