Yep. Also as extra protection from any phoning home to Topaz. It’s not possible run the software firewalled, since it needs to download the AI models once you try to run anything.
You can find plenty of versions on Demonoid https://www.dnoid.to/. I’ve used them on bare metal and on virtualization.
I just checked my DNS blocked list. Topaz software do download their models from their repositories, but I haven’t come across any issues. About safety, well, its upto your threat model.
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I tried a couple but had no luck running them in VMs so I gave up.
Were you running in VM for protection from possible viruses?
Yep. Also as extra protection from any phoning home to Topaz. It’s not possible run the software firewalled, since it needs to download the AI models once you try to run anything.
I got quite a few responses to this post. Have you tried any of the ones other people listed?
I haven’t.
If you ever get around to it let me know if any of them work/safe
use the search on https://gfx-hub.co (no virus found, goes online just to download the AI then you can use it offline).
You can find plenty of versions on Demonoid https://www.dnoid.to/. I’ve used them on bare metal and on virtualization.
I just checked my DNS blocked list. Topaz software do download their models from their repositories, but I haven’t come across any issues. About safety, well, its upto your threat model.
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