Xeno443/reForge-portable

⭐ reForge portable version ⭐

• Updated 1th November 2025 with reForge version f1.0.0v2-v1.10.1RC-latest-2465

Two preconfigured versions:

• PyTorch 2.9.1 - CUDA 12.8 (supports up to Nvidia RTX 5xxx/Blackwell GPUs)
• PyTorch 2.10.0dev - XPU (supports Intel ARC GPUs)

reForge not being available as a portable version I wanted to build one to make the installation experience as simple as possible. This means this version comes with embbedded Python and Git, so you don't need to install either separately, it contains everything it needs to run.

This version is not supported or endorsed by Panchovix!

🟨Quickstart

Download the full pack which contains everything besides a model (will automatically download noobaiXL on first run). See below for usage options. Make sure your GPU driver is up to date!

➡️➡️ NVidia CUDA Full Pack

➡️➡️ Intel XPU Full Pack

⚠️If you receive an error like this during extraction, your WinRAR version is too old. Update it or install 7-Zip.

🟨Usage

This portable version contains all components required to use reForge without needing to install any additional components. The only thing your system needs are the Microsoft Visual C++ runtimes, but if you are not using a naked Windows install it is very likely that you already have those. If you don't have them you can download them here:

• Latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Installer
  https://aka.ms/vc14/vc_redist.x64.exe

After you unzip the archive you will find a few batch files in the main directory which must be used to run and modify the portable environment.

• run.bat
  This file sets up the necessary environment variables and launches the webui

• update-webui.bat
  Run this to check for webui updates online. It will automatically update to the latest version of the branch you are on.

• get-models.bat
  On a fresh install of the webui you will be missing a few essential/popular models and this file will download them for you.

• switch-branch.bat
  If you want to switch the current webui branch use this file to do so.
  Only use this if you know what you are doing!

• environment.bat
  Starts a cmd.exe within the portable environment. You can use this to manually modify the embedded Python.
  Only use this if you know what you are doing!

• change-pytorch.bat
  This allows you to switch to a different Pytorch version, or just reinstall the current one if you encounter issues.
  Only use this if you know what you are doing!

The webui also accepts startup parameters for various effects, and you cann still edit the "webui\webui-user.bat" as usual, but start the webui with the "run.bat" in the main directory to make sure the portable environment is set up.

🟨All Downloads

I have uploaded three different versions:

• minimal: only has the portable git, python and the naked clone of the reForge repository and will download everything on first run.
• pytorch: has all required pytorch modules installed and is preconfigured for SDXL models
• pytorch + addons: same as above but comes with a lot of popular and useful addons, e.g.:
  (tag autocomplete, forge couple, dynamic prompts, LoraCTL, regional prompter, adetailer, negpip, inpaint tools)

The Intel XPU Pytorch has a bug in version 2.9.x that randomly breaks every third generation attempt on SDXL models, you can either use the older 2.8.0 ipex version which is a bit slower or the current 2.10.0-dev version which has this bug fixed, but may not be 100% stable yet. Pytorch 2.10 final release is planned for Jan 2026.

All versions are cloned from the main branch, previous versions can be found in the download folder:
➡️ Download

🟨Step by step for the official embeddable zip version

You should of course not simply trust a random stranger on the internet about anything, so if you don't want to use the prebuild packackes I also have documented step by step how I created these

stepbystep-pythonportable.md This version uses the official "Windows embeddable package (64-bit)" package.