diff --git a/comfy/controlnet.py b/comfy/controlnet.py
index 4bd075e9d..9dfd69977 100644
--- a/comfy/controlnet.py
+++ b/comfy/controlnet.py
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ class ControlBase:
         self.strength = strength
         self.timestep_percent_range = timestep_percent_range
         if self.latent_format is not None:
+            if vae is None:
+                logging.warning("WARNING: no VAE provided to the controlnet apply node when this controlnet requires one.")
             self.vae = vae
         self.extra_concat_orig = extra_concat.copy()
         if self.concat_mask and len(self.extra_concat_orig) == 0:
@@ -222,6 +224,9 @@ class ControlNet(ControlBase):
             compression_ratio = self.compression_ratio
             if self.vae is not None:
                 compression_ratio *= self.vae.downscale_ratio
+            else:
+                if self.latent_format is not None:
+                    raise ValueError("This Controlnet needs a VAE but none was provided, please use a different ControlNetApply node with a VAE input.")
             self.cond_hint = comfy.utils.common_upscale(self.cond_hint_original, x_noisy.shape[3] * compression_ratio, x_noisy.shape[2] * compression_ratio, self.upscale_algorithm, "center")
             if self.vae is not None:
                 loaded_models = comfy.model_management.loaded_models(only_currently_used=True)
@@ -395,19 +400,22 @@ class ControlLora(ControlNet):
 def controlnet_config(sd, model_options={}):
     model_config = comfy.model_detection.model_config_from_unet(sd, "", True)
 
-    supported_inference_dtypes = model_config.supported_inference_dtypes
+    unet_dtype = model_options.get("dtype", None)
+    if unet_dtype is None:
+        weight_dtype = comfy.utils.weight_dtype(sd)
+
+        supported_inference_dtypes = list(model_config.supported_inference_dtypes)
+        if weight_dtype is not None:
+            supported_inference_dtypes.append(weight_dtype)
+
+        unet_dtype = comfy.model_management.unet_dtype(model_params=-1, supported_dtypes=supported_inference_dtypes)
 
-    controlnet_config = model_config.unet_config
-    unet_dtype = model_options.get("dtype", comfy.model_management.unet_dtype(supported_dtypes=supported_inference_dtypes))
     load_device = comfy.model_management.get_torch_device()
     manual_cast_dtype = comfy.model_management.unet_manual_cast(unet_dtype, load_device)
 
     operations = model_options.get("custom_operations", None)
     if operations is None:
-        if manual_cast_dtype is not None:
-            operations = comfy.ops.manual_cast
-        else:
-            operations = comfy.ops.disable_weight_init
+        operations = comfy.ops.pick_operations(unet_dtype, manual_cast_dtype, disable_fast_fp8=True)
 
     offload_device = comfy.model_management.unet_offload_device()
     return model_config, operations, load_device, unet_dtype, manual_cast_dtype, offload_device
@@ -490,8 +498,8 @@ def convert_mistoline(sd):
     return comfy.utils.state_dict_prefix_replace(sd, {"single_controlnet_blocks.": "controlnet_single_blocks."})
 
 
-def load_controlnet(ckpt_path, model=None, model_options={}):
-    controlnet_data = comfy.utils.load_torch_file(ckpt_path, safe_load=True)
+def load_controlnet_state_dict(state_dict, model=None, model_options={}):
+    controlnet_data = state_dict
     if 'after_proj_list.18.bias' in controlnet_data.keys(): #Hunyuan DiT
         return load_controlnet_hunyuandit(controlnet_data, model_options=model_options)
 
@@ -573,27 +581,35 @@ def load_controlnet(ckpt_path, model=None, model_options={}):
     else:
         net = load_t2i_adapter(controlnet_data, model_options=model_options)
         if net is None:
-            logging.error("error checkpoint does not contain controlnet or t2i adapter data {}".format(ckpt_path))
+            logging.error("error could not detect control model type.")
         return net
 
     if controlnet_config is None:
         model_config = comfy.model_detection.model_config_from_unet(controlnet_data, prefix, True)
-        supported_inference_dtypes = model_config.supported_inference_dtypes
+        supported_inference_dtypes = list(model_config.supported_inference_dtypes)
         controlnet_config = model_config.unet_config
 
+    unet_dtype = model_options.get("dtype", None)
+    if unet_dtype is None:
+        weight_dtype = comfy.utils.weight_dtype(controlnet_data)
+
+        if supported_inference_dtypes is None:
+            supported_inference_dtypes = [comfy.model_management.unet_dtype()]
+
+        if weight_dtype is not None:
+            supported_inference_dtypes.append(weight_dtype)
+
+        unet_dtype = comfy.model_management.unet_dtype(model_params=-1, supported_dtypes=supported_inference_dtypes)
+
     load_device = comfy.model_management.get_torch_device()
-    if supported_inference_dtypes is None:
-        unet_dtype = comfy.model_management.unet_dtype()
-    else:
-        unet_dtype = comfy.model_management.unet_dtype(supported_dtypes=supported_inference_dtypes)
 
     manual_cast_dtype = comfy.model_management.unet_manual_cast(unet_dtype, load_device)
-    if manual_cast_dtype is not None:
-        controlnet_config["operations"] = comfy.ops.manual_cast
-    if "custom_operations" in model_options:
-        controlnet_config["operations"] = model_options["custom_operations"]
-    if "dtype" in model_options:
-        controlnet_config["dtype"] = model_options["dtype"]
+    operations = model_options.get("custom_operations", None)
+    if operations is None:
+        operations = comfy.ops.pick_operations(unet_dtype, manual_cast_dtype)
+
+    controlnet_config["operations"] = operations
+    controlnet_config["dtype"] = unet_dtype
     controlnet_config["device"] = comfy.model_management.unet_offload_device()
     controlnet_config.pop("out_channels")
     controlnet_config["hint_channels"] = controlnet_data["{}input_hint_block.0.weight".format(prefix)].shape[1]
@@ -628,14 +644,21 @@ def load_controlnet(ckpt_path, model=None, model_options={}):
     if len(unexpected) > 0:
         logging.debug("unexpected controlnet keys: {}".format(unexpected))
 
-    global_average_pooling = False
-    filename = os.path.splitext(ckpt_path)[0]
-    if filename.endswith("_shuffle") or filename.endswith("_shuffle_fp16"): #TODO: smarter way of enabling global_average_pooling
-        global_average_pooling = True
-
+    global_average_pooling = model_options.get("global_average_pooling", False)
     control = ControlNet(control_model, global_average_pooling=global_average_pooling, load_device=load_device, manual_cast_dtype=manual_cast_dtype)
     return control
 
+def load_controlnet(ckpt_path, model=None, model_options={}):
+    if "global_average_pooling" not in model_options:
+        filename = os.path.splitext(ckpt_path)[0]
+        if filename.endswith("_shuffle") or filename.endswith("_shuffle_fp16"): #TODO: smarter way of enabling global_average_pooling
+            model_options["global_average_pooling"] = True
+
+    cnet = load_controlnet_state_dict(comfy.utils.load_torch_file(ckpt_path, safe_load=True), model=model, model_options=model_options)
+    if cnet is None:
+        logging.error("error checkpoint does not contain controlnet or t2i adapter data {}".format(ckpt_path))
+    return cnet
+
 class T2IAdapter(ControlBase):
     def __init__(self, t2i_model, channels_in, compression_ratio, upscale_algorithm, device=None):
         super().__init__(device)
diff --git a/comfy/model_management.py b/comfy/model_management.py
index c15df952d..a43523ada 100644
--- a/comfy/model_management.py
+++ b/comfy/model_management.py
@@ -640,6 +640,8 @@ def maximum_vram_for_weights(device=None):
     return (get_total_memory(device) * 0.88 - minimum_inference_memory())
 
 def unet_dtype(device=None, model_params=0, supported_dtypes=[torch.float16, torch.bfloat16, torch.float32]):
+    if model_params < 0:
+        model_params = 1000000000000000000000
     if args.bf16_unet:
         return torch.bfloat16
     if args.fp16_unet:
diff --git a/comfy/ops.py b/comfy/ops.py
index 43ed55adb..1b386dba7 100644
--- a/comfy/ops.py
+++ b/comfy/ops.py
@@ -300,10 +300,10 @@ class fp8_ops(manual_cast):
             return torch.nn.functional.linear(input, weight, bias)
 
 
-def pick_operations(weight_dtype, compute_dtype, load_device=None):
+def pick_operations(weight_dtype, compute_dtype, load_device=None, disable_fast_fp8=False):
     if compute_dtype is None or weight_dtype == compute_dtype:
         return disable_weight_init
-    if args.fast:
+    if args.fast and not disable_fast_fp8:
         if comfy.model_management.supports_fp8_compute(load_device):
             return fp8_ops
     return manual_cast
diff --git a/comfy_extras/nodes_sd3.py b/comfy_extras/nodes_sd3.py
index c4bccaa6f..77b8fb8e2 100644
--- a/comfy_extras/nodes_sd3.py
+++ b/comfy_extras/nodes_sd3.py
@@ -103,5 +103,5 @@ NODE_CLASS_MAPPINGS = {
 
 NODE_DISPLAY_NAME_MAPPINGS = {
     # Sampling
-    "ControlNetApplySD3": "ControlNetApply SD3 and HunyuanDiT",
+    "ControlNetApplySD3": "Apply Controlnet",
 }
diff --git a/nodes.py b/nodes.py
index 292ff9cfa..c4595f6a1 100644
--- a/nodes.py
+++ b/nodes.py
@@ -1917,8 +1917,8 @@ NODE_DISPLAY_NAME_MAPPINGS = {
     "ConditioningSetArea": "Conditioning (Set Area)",
     "ConditioningSetAreaPercentage": "Conditioning (Set Area with Percentage)",
     "ConditioningSetMask": "Conditioning (Set Mask)",
-    "ControlNetApply": "Apply ControlNet",
-    "ControlNetApplyAdvanced": "Apply ControlNet (Advanced)",
+    "ControlNetApply": "Apply ControlNet (OLD)",
+    "ControlNetApplyAdvanced": "Apply ControlNet (OLD Advanced)",
     # Latent
     "VAEEncodeForInpaint": "VAE Encode (for Inpainting)",
     "SetLatentNoiseMask": "Set Latent Noise Mask",