---
title: "Launch stable diffusion web UI with VAE"
date: 2023-03-11T20:59:13.000Z
author: Z.SHINCHVEN
tags: [Stable Diffusion, Stable Diffusion Web UI]
canonical: https://atlassc.net/2023/03/11/launch-stable-diffusion-web-ui-with-vae
---
Stability release a [VAE model](https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/sd-vae-ft-mse-original) for generating images with more details.

Here's how you can launch `Stable Diffusion Web UI` with VAE model.

## Command

```bash
# macOS Apple Silicon
./webui.sh --precision full --vae-path "/Users/username/stable-diffusion-webui/models/VAE/vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned.vae.pt"
# nvidia
./webui.sh --vae-path "/Users/username/stable-diffusion-webui/models/VAE/vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned.vae.pt"
```

## Reference

[Answer to Loading VAE models](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/discussions/3311#discussioncomment-3954714)