ATTENTION: there are now several forks of SD that offer web GUI’s and can install on Windows in one click (most notably sd-webgui). If you want to run Stable Diffusion programmatically and don’t mind some extra steps, read on. Prerequisites # In order to run Stable Diffusion locally on Windows, you will need a Nvidia GPU with at least 8 GB of VRAM and the latest Game Ready drivers. We will use WSL2 (Windows subsystem for Linux) to run Stable Diffusion.