From c6cb9049943a5841e9ec5a8480eb882554377afc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: j2gg0s <j2gg0s@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 04:01:43 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix AttributeError in VAE.is_dynamic() for VAEs constructed
 without a patcher (#14826)

---
 comfy/sd.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/comfy/sd.py b/comfy/sd.py
index faf3104f3..071a3102a 100644
--- a/comfy/sd.py
+++ b/comfy/sd.py
@@ -1255,7 +1255,10 @@ class VAE:
             return None
 
     def is_dynamic(self):
-        return self.patcher.is_dynamic()
+        # A VAE built from a state dict with no detectable VAE weights returns early
+        # from __init__ ("No VAE weights detected") before self.patcher is assigned.
+        patcher = getattr(self, "patcher", None)
+        return patcher is not None and patcher.is_dynamic()
 
 class StyleModel:
     def __init__(self, model, device="cpu"):