diff --git a/otherarch/sdcpp/sdtype_adapter.cpp b/otherarch/sdcpp/sdtype_adapter.cpp
index 2a5c61f40..5dff78031 100644
--- a/otherarch/sdcpp/sdtype_adapter.cpp
+++ b/otherarch/sdcpp/sdtype_adapter.cpp
@@ -482,6 +482,7 @@ bool sdtype_load_model(const sd_load_model_inputs inputs) {
     params.chroma_use_dit_mask = true;
     params.max_vram = max_vram.c_str();
     params.stream_layers = inputs.stream_layers;
+    params.eager_load = true; //kcpp should preload everything
     params.enable_mmap = inputs.use_mmap;
     params.params_backend = inputs.offload_cpu ? "CPU" : "";
     backends += get_device_override(inputs.kcpp_vae_device, "VAE");