[bug]: Z-Image Turbo Generation Does Not Work Without Internet Access

[kappacommit]

Is there an existing issue for this problem?

• I have searched the existing issues

Install method

Invoke's Launcher

Operating system

Windows

GPU vendor

Nvidia (CUDA)

GPU model

No response

GPU VRAM

No response

Version number

Latest

Browser

No response

System Information

No response

What happened

Z-Image Turbo generation does not work without internet access. It will attempt to load a file off of huggingface even if you've already previously downloaded and had successful generations.

What you expected to happen

Z-Image Turbo generation should work when offline

How to reproduce the problem

• Download Z-Image Turbo and generate a couple of images with it
• Disable your PC's internet access (airplane mode)
• Attempt to generate another image

Additional context

No response

Discord username

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[michaelanderson01826-glitch]

Yeah I can reproduce this — it still tries to hit Hugging Face even after the model’s already cached. Feels like it’s not properly falling back to local files when offline. Might be worth checking how the model path / loader is resolved in offline mode.

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