diff --git a/koboldai_settings.py b/koboldai_settings.py
index 8ab134fa..ebd8c019 100644
--- a/koboldai_settings.py
+++ b/koboldai_settings.py
@@ -919,7 +919,7 @@ class story_settings(settings):
         # In percent!!!
         self.commentary_chance = 0
         self.commentary_enabled = False
-
+        
         self.save_paths = SavePaths(os.path.join("stories", self.story_name or "Untitled"))
 
         ################### must be at bottom #########################
@@ -1206,12 +1206,12 @@ class system_settings(settings):
     local_only_variables = ['lua_state', 'lua_logname', 'lua_koboldbridge', 'lua_kobold', 
                             'lua_koboldcore', 'regex_sl', 'acregex_ai', 'acregex_ui', 'comregex_ai', 'comregex_ui',
                             'sp', '_horde_pid', 'inference_config', 'image_pipeline', 
-                            'summarizer', 'summary_tokenizer', 'tts_model', 'rng_states', 'comregex_ai', 'comregex_ui']
+                            'summarizer', 'summary_tokenizer', 'tts_model', 'rng_states', 'comregex_ai', 'comregex_ui', 'colab_arg']
     no_save_variables = ['lua_state', 'lua_logname', 'lua_koboldbridge', 'lua_kobold', 
                          'lua_koboldcore', 'sp', 'sp_length', '_horde_pid', 'horde_share', 'aibusy', 
                          'serverstarted', 'inference_config', 'image_pipeline', 'summarizer', 'on_colab'
                          'summary_tokenizer', 'use_colab_tpu', 'noai', 'disable_set_aibusy', 'cloudflare_link', 'tts_model',
-                         'generating_image', 'bit_8_available', 'bit_4_available', 'host', 'hascuda', 'usegpu', 'rng_states', 'comregex_ai', 'comregex_ui', 'git_repository', 'git_branch']
+                         'generating_image', 'bit_8_available', 'host', 'hascuda', 'usegpu', 'rng_states', 'comregex_ai', 'comregex_ui', 'git_repository', 'git_branch', 'colab_arg']
     settings_name = "system"
     def __init__(self, socketio, koboldai_var):
         self._socketio = socketio
@@ -1279,11 +1279,12 @@ class system_settings(settings):
         self.disable_output_formatting = False
         self.api_tokenizer_id = None
         self.port = 5000
+        self.colab_arg = False
         try:
             import google.colab
             self.on_colab = True
         except:
-            self.on_colab = False
+            self.on_colab = self.colab_arg
         print(f"Colab Check: {self.on_colab}, TPU: {self.use_colab_tpu}")
         self.horde_share = False
         self._horde_pid = None
@@ -1294,13 +1295,6 @@ class system_settings(settings):
         self.keep_img_gen_in_memory = False
         self.cookies = {} #cookies for colab since colab's URL changes, cookies are lost
         self.experimental_features = False
-        # Check if repos/gptq exists for 4-bit mode
-        self.bit_4_available = True
-        try:
-            import gptq
-        except ImportError:
-            self.bit_4_available = False
-
         self.seen_messages = []
         self.git_repository = ""
         self.git_branch = ""