disabling live preview should not disable progress updates

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Mandic <mandic00@live.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
   - fix modernui hints layout  
   - fix `wan-2.2-a14b` stage selection  
   - fix `wan-2.2-5b` vae decode  
+  - disabling live preview should not disable progress updates  
 
 ## Update for 2025-10-18
 

javascript/progressBar.js

@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ function requestProgress(id_task, progressEl, galleryEl, atEnd = null, onProgres
   };
 
   const start = (id_task, id_live_preview) => { // eslint-disable-line no-shadow
-    if (!opts.live_previews_enable || opts.live_preview_refresh_period === 0 || opts.show_progress_every_n_steps === 0) return;
+    if (opts.live_preview_refresh_period === 0) return;
     const request_id = document.hidden ? -1 : id_live_preview;
 
     const onProgressHandler = (res) => {

modules/progress.py

@@ -92,9 +92,9 @@ def api_progress(req: ProgressRequest):
         id_live_preview = -1
         textinfo = "Queued..." if queued else "Waiting..."
 
-    debug_log(f'Preview: job={shared.state.job} active={active} progress={step}/{steps}/{progress} image={shared.state.current_image_sampling_step} request={id_live_preview} last={shared.state.id_live_preview} enabled={shared.opts.live_previews_enable} job={shared.state.preview_job} elapsed={elapsed:.3f}')
+    debug_log(f'Preview: job={shared.state.job} active={active} progress={step}/{steps}/{progress} image={shared.state.current_image_sampling_step} request={id_live_preview} last={shared.state.id_live_preview} job={shared.state.preview_job} elapsed={elapsed:.3f}')
 
-    if shared.opts.live_previews_enable and active and (req.id_live_preview != -1):
+    if active and (req.id_live_preview != -1):
         have_image = shared.state.set_current_image()
         if have_image and shared.state.current_image is not None:
             buffered = io.BytesIO()

modules/sd_samplers_common.py

@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ def images_tensor_to_samples(image, approximation=None, model=None):
 
 def store_latent(decoded):
     shared.state.current_latent = decoded
-    if shared.opts.live_previews_enable and shared.opts.show_progress_every_n_steps > 0 and shared.state.sampling_step % shared.opts.show_progress_every_n_steps == 0:
+    if shared.opts.show_progress_every_n_steps > 0 and shared.state.sampling_step % shared.opts.show_progress_every_n_steps == 0:
         if not shared.parallel_processing_allowed:
             image = sample_to_image(decoded)
             shared.state.assign_current_image(image)

modules/shared.py

@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ options_templates.update(options_section(('ui', "User Interface"), {
 }))
 
 options_templates.update(options_section(('live-preview', "Live Previews"), {
-    "show_progress_every_n_steps": OptionInfo(1, "Live preview display period", gr.Slider, {"minimum": 0, "maximum": 32, "step": 1}),
+    "show_progress_every_n_steps": OptionInfo(1, "Live preview display period", gr.Slider, {"minimum": 0, "maximum": 20, "step": 1}),
     "show_progress_type": OptionInfo("TAESD", "Live preview method", gr.Radio, {"choices": ["Simple", "Approximate", "TAESD", "Full VAE"]}),
     "live_preview_refresh_period": OptionInfo(500, "Progress update period", gr.Slider, {"minimum": 0, "maximum": 5000, "step": 25}),
     "taesd_variant": OptionInfo(shared_items.sd_taesd_items()[0], "TAESD variant", gr.Dropdown, {"choices": shared_items.sd_taesd_items()}),

modules/shared_state.py

@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ class State:
         if self.job == 'VAE' or self.job == 'Upscale': # avoid generating preview while vae is running
             return False
         from modules.shared import opts, cmd_opts
-        if cmd_opts.lowvram or self.api or (not opts.live_previews_enable) or (opts.show_progress_every_n_steps <= 0):
+        if cmd_opts.lowvram or self.api or (opts.show_progress_every_n_steps <= 0):
             return False
         if (not self.disable_preview) and (abs(self.sampling_step - self.current_image_sampling_step) >= opts.show_progress_every_n_steps):
             return self.do_set_current_image()