diff --git a/modules/shared.py b/modules/shared.py
index 41d7f08e1..03032a47b 100644
--- a/modules/shared.py
+++ b/modules/shared.py
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ parser.add_argument('--vae-path', type=str, help='Path to Variational Autoencode
 parser.add_argument("--disable-safe-unpickle", action='store_true', help="disable checking pytorch models for malicious code", default=False)
 parser.add_argument("--api", action='store_true', help="use api=True to launch the api with the webui")
 parser.add_argument("--nowebui", action='store_true', help="use api=True to launch the api instead of the webui")
+parser.add_argument("--device-id", type=str, help="Select the default CUDA device to use (export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,etc might be needed before)", default=None)
 
 cmd_opts = parser.parse_args()
 restricted_opts = [