ComfyUI desktop version Windows installation tutorial

ComfyUI Desktop Edition (Windows) Download

Please click the button below to download the corresponding ComfyUI desktop version installation package for Windows system

Download for Windows (NVIDIA): https://www.comfy.org/download

Installation steps for ComfyUI desktop version

Double-click the downloaded installation package file, and will first perform an automatic installation and generate a shortcut for the ComfyUI desktop version on the desktop.

Double-click the corresponding shortcut to enter the initialization settings of ComfyUI

ComfyUI desktop version initialization process

Start the interface

Click " Get Started " to start the initialization step

Select GPU (GPU selection)

The corresponding three options are:

Nvidia graphics card (recommended): Directly support pytorch and CUDA

Manual Configuration: You need to manually install and configure the python running environment, unless you know how to configure it, please do not choose

Enable CPU Mode Enable CPU Mode: only for developers and special cases, please do not select

If there are no special circumstances, please select NVIDIA as shown in the screenshot and click " Next " to proceed to the next step

Install location

In this step, select the installation location of ComfyUI:

Python environment

Models Model Files

Custom Nodes Custom Nodes

suggestion:

Please select the SSD as the installation location, which will increase the speed of ComfyUI access to the model.

Please create a separate blank folder as the installation directory of ComfyUI

Please ensure that the corresponding disk has at least " 15G " disk space to ensure the installation of ComfyUI Desktop

ComfyUI not all files are installed in this directory, and some files will still be installed on the C drive. If you need to uninstall later, you can refer to the uninstallation part of this guide to complete the complete uninstallation of the ComfyUI desktop version.

After completion, click " Next " to proceed to the next step

Migrate from Existing Installation (migate from existing installations - optional)

In this step, you can migrate your existing ComfyUI installation content to the ComfyUI desktop version. As shown in the figure, you select the original D:ComfyUI_windows_portableComfyUI installation directory. The installer will automatically recognize the corresponding directory:

User Files User Files

Models model file: It will not be copied, but will be associated with the desktop version.

Custom Nodes Custom Nodes: The custom node will be reinstalled

Don't worry, this step will not copy the model file. You can check or uncheck the corresponding options according to your needs, and click " Next " to enter the next step.

Desktop Setting (Desktop Edition Settings)

This step is preference settings

Automatic Updates Automatic Updates: Whether to set up automatic updates when ComfyUI updates are available

Usage Metrics Usage Analysis: If enabled, we will collect anonymous usage data to help us improve ComfyUI

Mirror Settings Mirror Settings: Since the program needs to download Python online to complete the installation of the relevant environment, if you also have a red ❌ as shown in the figure during installation, it is prompted that this may cause the subsequent installation process to fail, please refer to the following steps for processing.

Expand the corresponding image settings and find the specific failed image. The error in the current screenshot is " Python Install Mirror " mirror failed.

For different mirror errors, you can refer to the following content to try to manually find different mirrors and replace them

The following situations are mainly for users in China

Python installation image

You need to find the GitHub image address and build the image address pointing to the Python-build-standalone repository releases

https://github.com/astral-sh/python-build-standalone/releases/download

Build a link similar to the following format

https://xxx/astral-sh/python-build-standalone/releases/download

PyPI Mirror

Alibaba Cloud: https://mirrors.aliyun.com/pypi/simple/

Tencent Cloud: https://mirrors.cloud.tencent.com/pypi/simple/

University of Science and Technology of China: https://pypi.mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/simple/

Shanghai Jiaotong University: https://pypi.sjtu.edu.cn/simple/

Complete the installation

If everything is correct, the installer will complete the installation and automatically enter the ComfyUI desktop interface, which means that the installation has been successfully