Very new to all of this, please help?

[AlexAndrews91]

Hi there, I am running Automatic1111 and it seems very slow on my new laptop.

I am not usually a coder (at all) but I have been tinkering with this on my older laptop and am now creating on my new one.

the issue is this.

every time that I create an image I get this error:

[Error GPU temperature protection] nvidia-smi: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

More specifically I get this error:

Loading VAE weights specified in settings: C:\Users\xxxxxxx\stable-diffusion-webui-directml\models\VAE\klF8Anime2VAE_klF8Anime2VAE.safetensors
Applying attention optimization: InvokeAI... done.
Weights loaded in 3.6s (calculate hash: 2.3s, load weights from disk: 0.6s, apply weights to model: 0.4s, load VAE: 0.2s).
Calculating sha256 for C:\Users\xxxxxxx\stable-diffusion-webui-directml\models\Lora\add_detail.safetensors: 7c6bad76eb54e80ebe40f5a455b1cf7a743e09fe2fc1289cf333544e3aa071ce
0%| | 0/40 [00:00<?, ?it/s]
[Error GPU temperature protection] nvidia-smi: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
2%|██ | 1/40 [00:28<18:13, 28.03s/it]
[Error GPU temperature protection] nvidia-smi: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified<48:17, 32.56s/it]
5%|████▏ | 2/40 [00:51<16:05, 25.40s/it]
[Error GPU temperature protection] nvidia-smi: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified<39:59, 27.27s/it]
8%|██████▏ | 3/40 [01:13<14:34, 23.63s/it]
[Error GPU temperature protection] nvidia-smi: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified<35:44, 24.64s/it]
10%|████████▎ | 4/40 [01:37<14:17, 23.82s/it]
[Error GPU temperature protection] nvidia-smi: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified<35:01, 24.44s/it]
12%|██████████▍ | 5/40 [02:01<13:58, 23.97s/it]
[Error GPU temperature protection] nvidia-smi: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified<34:30, 24.36s/it]
15%|████████████▍ | 6/40 [02:25<13:35, 23.98s/it]
[Error GPU temperature protection] nvidia-smi: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified<33:55, 24.23s/it]
18%|██████████████▌ | 7/40 [02:48<13:00, 23.66s/it]
[Error GPU temperature protection] nvidia-smi: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified<32:58, 23.83s/it]
20%|████████████████▌ | 8/40 [03:12<12:36, 23.65s/it]
[Error GPU temperature protection] nvidia-smi: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified<32:28, 23.77s/it]
22%|██████████████████▋ | 9/40 [03:36<12:15, 23.74s/it]
[Error GPU temperature protection] nvidia-smi: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified<32:09, 23.82s/it]
25%|████████████████████▌ | 10/40 [03:59<11:53, 23.80s/it]
[Error GPU temperature protection] nvidia-smi: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified<31:48, 23.85s/it]
28%|██████████████████████▌ | 11/40 [04:24<11:33, 23.90s/it]
[Error GPU temperature protection] nvidia-smi: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified<31:31, 23.94s/it]
30%|████████████████████████▌ | 12/40 [04:48<11:10, 23.96s/it]
[Error GPU temperature protection] nvidia-smi: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified<31:11, 23.99s/it]
32%|██████████████████████████▋ | 13/40 [05:12<10:50, 24.08s/it]
[Error GPU temperature protection] nvidia-smi: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified<30:55, 24.10s/it]
35%|████████████████████████████▋ | 14/40 [05:36<10:27, 24.15s/it]
Total progress: 16%|██████████▎ | 14/90 [05:41<30:36, 24.16s/it]

Does anyone know a solution to this?

[PycraftDeveloper]

Most likely there is some other software configuration issue on the laptop. Try the following:

1. Check to see if the laptop that causes the problem has an Nvidia GPU (This is an Nvidia only tool)
2. Check for new drivers/install the right Nvidia drivers from the website: https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/drivers/

If that doesn't work, try checking out this StackOverflow article to see if this might affect you (specifically how old is the older laptop?) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57100015/how-do-i-run-nvidia-smi-on-windows

Let me know how this goes and if this solves the problem. If it doesn't let me know and we'll go from there!