Using real-esrgan to train a model using the compact architecture results in a .pth model file that loads perfectly fine into VSGAN.
There is an application called chaiNNer which can be used to work with and manipulate models. If I save the model in chaiNNer, it outputs a model which no longer works in VSGAN.
One of the developers on chaiNNer said that real-esrgan creates its models with a lot of unnecessary information in the file that they strip out in order to be more in line with other types of models.

Would it be possible to add support for models in the format output by chaiNNer?
I have attached a model that was output directly from real-esrgan and then a version that was saved through chaiNNer
Models.zip
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