diff --git a/comfy/ldm/wan/vae.py b/comfy/ldm/wan/vae.py
index 791596938..ccbb25822 100644
--- a/comfy/ldm/wan/vae.py
+++ b/comfy/ldm/wan/vae.py
@@ -468,55 +468,46 @@ class WanVAE(nn.Module):
                                  attn_scales, self.temperal_upsample, dropout)
 
     def encode(self, x):
-        self.clear_cache()
+        conv_idx = [0]
+        feat_map = [None] * count_conv3d(self.decoder)
         ## cache
         t = x.shape[2]
         iter_ = 1 + (t - 1) // 4
         ## 对encode输入的x，按时间拆分为1、4、4、4....
         for i in range(iter_):
-            self._enc_conv_idx = [0]
+            conv_idx = [0]
             if i == 0:
                 out = self.encoder(
                     x[:, :, :1, :, :],
-                    feat_cache=self._enc_feat_map,
-                    feat_idx=self._enc_conv_idx)
+                    feat_cache=feat_map,
+                    feat_idx=conv_idx)
             else:
                 out_ = self.encoder(
                     x[:, :, 1 + 4 * (i - 1):1 + 4 * i, :, :],
-                    feat_cache=self._enc_feat_map,
-                    feat_idx=self._enc_conv_idx)
+                    feat_cache=feat_map,
+                    feat_idx=conv_idx)
                 out = torch.cat([out, out_], 2)
         mu, log_var = self.conv1(out).chunk(2, dim=1)
-        self.clear_cache()
         return mu
 
     def decode(self, z):
-        self.clear_cache()
+        conv_idx = [0]
+        feat_map = [None] * count_conv3d(self.decoder)
         # z: [b,c,t,h,w]
 
         iter_ = z.shape[2]
         x = self.conv2(z)
         for i in range(iter_):
-            self._conv_idx = [0]
+            conv_idx = [0]
             if i == 0:
                 out = self.decoder(
                     x[:, :, i:i + 1, :, :],
-                    feat_cache=self._feat_map,
-                    feat_idx=self._conv_idx)
+                    feat_cache=feat_map,
+                    feat_idx=conv_idx)
             else:
                 out_ = self.decoder(
                     x[:, :, i:i + 1, :, :],
-                    feat_cache=self._feat_map,
-                    feat_idx=self._conv_idx)
+                    feat_cache=feat_map,
+                    feat_idx=conv_idx)
                 out = torch.cat([out, out_], 2)
-        self.clear_cache()
         return out
-
-    def clear_cache(self):
-        self._conv_num = count_conv3d(self.decoder)
-        self._conv_idx = [0]
-        self._feat_map = [None] * self._conv_num
-        #cache encode
-        self._enc_conv_num = count_conv3d(self.encoder)
-        self._enc_conv_idx = [0]
-        self._enc_feat_map = [None] * self._enc_conv_num
diff --git a/comfy/sd.py b/comfy/sd.py
index 873ad20f2..be225ad03 100644
--- a/comfy/sd.py
+++ b/comfy/sd.py
@@ -652,6 +652,7 @@ class VAE:
     def decode(self, samples_in, vae_options={}):
         self.throw_exception_if_invalid()
         pixel_samples = None
+        do_tile = False
         try:
             memory_used = self.memory_used_decode(samples_in.shape, self.vae_dtype)
             model_management.load_models_gpu([self.patcher], memory_required=memory_used, force_full_load=self.disable_offload)
@@ -667,6 +668,13 @@ class VAE:
                 pixel_samples[x:x+batch_number] = out
         except model_management.OOM_EXCEPTION:
             logging.warning("Warning: Ran out of memory when regular VAE decoding, retrying with tiled VAE decoding.")
+            #NOTE: We don't know what tensors were allocated to stack variables at the time of the
+            #exception and the exception itself refs them all until we get out of this except block.
+            #So we just set a flag for tiler fallback so that tensor gc can happen once the
+            #exception is fully off the books.
+            do_tile = True
+
+        if do_tile:
             dims = samples_in.ndim - 2
             if dims == 1 or self.extra_1d_channel is not None:
                 pixel_samples = self.decode_tiled_1d(samples_in)
@@ -713,6 +721,7 @@ class VAE:
         self.throw_exception_if_invalid()
         pixel_samples = self.vae_encode_crop_pixels(pixel_samples)
         pixel_samples = pixel_samples.movedim(-1, 1)
+        do_tile = False
         if self.latent_dim == 3 and pixel_samples.ndim < 5:
             if not self.not_video:
                 pixel_samples = pixel_samples.movedim(1, 0).unsqueeze(0)
@@ -734,6 +743,13 @@ class VAE:
 
         except model_management.OOM_EXCEPTION:
             logging.warning("Warning: Ran out of memory when regular VAE encoding, retrying with tiled VAE encoding.")
+            #NOTE: We don't know what tensors were allocated to stack variables at the time of the
+            #exception and the exception itself refs them all until we get out of this except block.
+            #So we just set a flag for tiler fallback so that tensor gc can happen once the
+            #exception is fully off the books.
+            do_tile = True
+
+        if do_tile:
             if self.latent_dim == 3:
                 tile = 256
                 overlap = tile // 4