LM Studio Portable Launch Script (LMS PLS)

ℹ️ Latest version tested: 0.3.9 build 6

Installation

Just create a directory and put the .cmd files inside it:

1. Execute launchLMS.cmd

   • It will create some directories and will ask you to download "LM-Studio-*.exe" from his website
   • Download it and put it inside <currentPath>\Installer path

     ℹ️ Name should be: LM-Studio-whatever.exe

2. Execute launchLMS.cmd again

   • LM Studio will be automatically installed under <currentPath>\App
   • After installation, LM Studio will be automatically started
     • Download a model, check configuration, etc...
     • Everything should be as it was before on next run

Launching as a service

You can start launchLMS_service.cmd to run LMS in headless mode.

ℹ️ If its not installed, will be installed automatically as the normal script.

MultiGPU Scenarios

Simply set the following variable at the beginning of the script:

set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=X

Being X:

• 0 for the 1st GPU
• 1 for the 2nd
• 2 for the 3rd (and so on)

ℹ️ Specify multiple GPUs with commas: 1,2,3

ℹ️ ROCm & HIP have similar variables (https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/conceptual/gpu-isolation.html)

Extra info

• Models will be saved under <currentPath>\.lmstudio\models
• _gpuX.cmd scripts will launch normal script with cuda device set as X
• _debug.cmd scripts will write down all output to console and will wait for a keypress before closing it.
  • Probably useful for debugging purposes.

Known Bugs / Quirks

NSIS Installer will check registry for previously installed versions and will uninstall the previously installed version if found.
To avoid that, the script will try to clean-up these registry keys BEFORE and AFTER installation.

Current version (0.3.9 build 6) registry Keys for "current user" installation :

1. HKCU\Software\c6dbe996-22a9-5998-b542-7abe33da3b83
2. HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\c6dbe996-22a9-5998-b542-7abe33da3b83

ℹ️ Not tested under system-wide installs

That aside, I don't think there is any behavior out of the ordinary anymore.

Folder Icon

You can either:

• Execute setFolderIcon.cmd or
• Open a CMD/terminal window inside the portable app dir and manually set proper permissions:

  attrib +R .
  attrib +H +S desktop.ini
  attrib +H +S icon.ico
  

License

GNU General Public License v3.0