diff --git a/modules/processing.py b/modules/processing.py
index 544667a4d85fd0013c7441b17877593b9b221a81..aae39866b29b7a2f4a75f4367424b13d42e7406a 100644
--- a/modules/processing.py
+++ b/modules/processing.py
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ from typing import Any, Dict, List
 import modules.sd_hijack
 from modules import devices, prompt_parser, masking, sd_samplers, lowvram, generation_parameters_copypaste, extra_networks, sd_vae_approx, scripts, sd_samplers_common, sd_unet, errors
 from modules.sd_hijack import model_hijack
-from modules.sd_samplers_common import images_tensor_to_samples, decode_first_stage, approximation_indexes
 from modules.shared import opts, cmd_opts, state
 import modules.shared as shared
 import modules.paths as paths
@@ -31,6 +30,7 @@ from ldm.models.diffusion.ddpm import LatentDepth2ImageDiffusion
 from einops import repeat, rearrange
 from blendmodes.blend import blendLayers, BlendType
 
+decode_first_stage = sd_samplers_common.decode_first_stage
 
 # some of those options should not be changed at all because they would break the model, so I removed them from options.
 opt_C = 4
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ def txt2img_image_conditioning(sd_model, x, width, height):
 
         # The "masked-image" in this case will just be all zeros since the entire image is masked.
         image_conditioning = torch.zeros(x.shape[0], 3, height, width, device=x.device)
-        image_conditioning = images_tensor_to_samples(image_conditioning, approximation_indexes.get(opts.sd_vae_encode_method))
+        image_conditioning = sd_model.get_first_stage_encoding(sd_model.encode_first_stage(image_conditioning))
 
         # Add the fake full 1s mask to the first dimension.
         image_conditioning = torch.nn.functional.pad(image_conditioning, (0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0), value=1.0)
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ class StableDiffusionProcessing:
         midas_in = torch.from_numpy(transformed["midas_in"][None, ...]).to(device=shared.device)
         midas_in = repeat(midas_in, "1 ... -> n ...", n=self.batch_size)
 
-        conditioning_image = images_tensor_to_samples(source_image*0.5+0.5, approximation_indexes.get(opts.sd_vae_encode_method))
+        conditioning_image = self.sd_model.get_first_stage_encoding(self.sd_model.encode_first_stage(source_image))
         conditioning = torch.nn.functional.interpolate(
             self.sd_model.depth_model(midas_in),
             size=conditioning_image.shape[2:],
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ class StableDiffusionProcessing:
         return conditioning
 
     def edit_image_conditioning(self, source_image):
-        conditioning_image = images_tensor_to_samples(source_image*0.5+0.5, approximation_indexes.get(opts.sd_vae_encode_method))
+        conditioning_image = self.sd_model.encode_first_stage(source_image).mode()
 
         return conditioning_image
 
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ class StableDiffusionProcessing:
         )
 
         # Encode the new masked image using first stage of network.
-        conditioning_image = images_tensor_to_samples(conditioning_image*0.5+0.5, approximation_indexes.get(opts.sd_vae_encode_method))
+        conditioning_image = self.sd_model.get_first_stage_encoding(self.sd_model.encode_first_stage(conditioning_image))
 
         # Create the concatenated conditioning tensor to be fed to `c_concat`
         conditioning_mask = torch.nn.functional.interpolate(conditioning_mask, size=latent_image.shape[-2:])
@@ -1099,8 +1099,9 @@ class StableDiffusionProcessingTxt2Img(StableDiffusionProcessing):
 
             decoded_samples = torch.from_numpy(np.array(batch_images))
             decoded_samples = decoded_samples.to(shared.device)
+            decoded_samples = 2. * decoded_samples - 1.
 
-            samples = images_tensor_to_samples(decoded_samples, approximation_indexes.get(opts.sd_vae_encode_method))
+            samples = self.sd_model.get_first_stage_encoding(self.sd_model.encode_first_stage(decoded_samples))
 
             image_conditioning = self.img2img_image_conditioning(decoded_samples, samples)
 
@@ -1338,6 +1339,7 @@ class StableDiffusionProcessingImg2Img(StableDiffusionProcessing):
             raise RuntimeError(f"bad number of images passed: {len(imgs)}; expecting {self.batch_size} or less")
 
         image = torch.from_numpy(batch_images)
+        from modules.sd_samplers_common import images_tensor_to_samples, approximation_indexes
         self.init_latent = images_tensor_to_samples(image, approximation_indexes.get(opts.sd_vae_encode_method), self.sd_model)
         devices.torch_gc()
 
diff --git a/modules/sd_samplers_common.py b/modules/sd_samplers_common.py
index 42a29fc9c95bb83474cbc5027bdf3d8500663654..7269514f812055a004df46202d7d610305078b01 100644
--- a/modules/sd_samplers_common.py
+++ b/modules/sd_samplers_common.py
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ def images_tensor_to_samples(image, approximation=None, model=None):
 
     if approximation == 3:
         image = image.to(devices.device, devices.dtype)
-        x_latent = sd_vae_taesd.encoder_model()(image)
+        x_latent = sd_vae_taesd.encoder_model()(image) / 1.5
     else:
         if model is None:
             model = shared.sd_model
diff --git a/run.ps1 b/run.ps1
deleted file mode 100644
index 82c1660bbb4207750bf80df8ec25de8fe2f35485..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/run.ps1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-.\venv\Scripts\accelerate-launch.exe --num_cpu_threads_per_process=6 --api .\launch.py --listen --port 17415 --xformers --opt-channelslast
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/run_local.ps1 b/run_local.ps1
deleted file mode 100644
index e2ac43dbd0ceacf14f28a73dc38a1f892eb87260..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/run_local.ps1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-.\venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1
-python .\launch.py --xformers --opt-channelslast --api
-. $PSCommandPath
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/update.ps1 b/update.ps1
deleted file mode 100644
index 9960bead4b161fc65977e6cb6c948fe7ff48ae63..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/update.ps1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-git stash push && git pull --rebase && git stash pop
\ No newline at end of file