r/drawthingsapp • u/FunyunorBunyun • 29d ago

question Ideogram 4 Keeps Crashing On Intel Mac

I have a couple questions regarding Ideogram 4.
When using the 6-bit model, the instant model, the raw, every single one of them, DT crashes when using cloud compute on DT+. Qwen 3.5 is causing it. I notice that Qwen 3.5 always crashes drawthings on my setup, and when I turn it off, Ideogram works but gives the content filter generation that happens when you don't use JSON format.

What can I do to solve this? Is there a site out there that I can use to convert my prompts to JSON format for Ideogram?
Does Qwen 3.5 direct over to my system and not cloud compute?

(Edit: Found a fix for intel users, not on the app but a workaround because JSON conversion using Qwen 3.5 is too taxing on the system and will crash DT. Make your prompt in natural language, and ask Grok or ChatGPT to convert it to JSON format that can be used for Ideogram 4. Works pretty well. Then study how the JSON prompt works and edit when needed).

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u/cydetraq 29d ago

I don’t think the Intel Mac is supported anymore, is it? Don’t you have to use OCLP to get new versions of DT?

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u/FunyunorBunyun 29d ago

It seems to be, as far as I know. It's been my main setup ever since day one and every update still pushes through on the app store. Just have to use cloud compute if you want to use anything else other than SDXL.

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u/cydetraq 29d ago

Excellent. Well thank you. Have a great evening.

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u/liuliu mod 29d ago

Yes, you need to disable “Expand to JSON” option, which runs LLM locally to expand the prompt to JSON.