Oh, they’re pretty ridiculous alright.
Discussion
Are you using automatic1111?
Yeah, but I'm a total noob.
Get more checkpoints from civit.ai
Put them in the models folder.
Also loras, which go in the loras folder.
There are both standard and xl checkpoints and loras.
DPM++ 2M Karras is my favorite sampling method. Gives good images with 20-30 steps. I usually turn the CFG up to like 8-9.5.
Standard checkpoints only produce good 512x512 images. XL checkpoints can do 768x768 up to 1024x1024.
This is my current favorite XL model