diff --git a/modules/sd_samplers.py b/modules/sd_samplers.py
index 3670b57d5..aca014e89 100644
--- a/modules/sd_samplers.py
+++ b/modules/sd_samplers.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from collections import namedtuple
 import numpy as np
+from math import floor
 import torch
 import tqdm
 from PIL import Image
@@ -205,17 +206,22 @@ class VanillaStableDiffusionSampler:
         self.mask = p.mask if hasattr(p, 'mask') else None
         self.nmask = p.nmask if hasattr(p, 'nmask') else None
 
+
+    def adjust_steps_if_invalid(self, p, num_steps):
+        if self.config.name == 'DDIM' and p.ddim_discretize == 'uniform':
+            valid_step = 999 / (1000 // num_steps)
+            if valid_step == floor(valid_step):
+                return int(valid_step) + 1
+        
+        return num_steps
+
+
     def sample_img2img(self, p, x, noise, conditioning, unconditional_conditioning, steps=None, image_conditioning=None):
         steps, t_enc = setup_img2img_steps(p, steps)
-
+        steps = self.adjust_steps_if_invalid(p, steps)
         self.initialize(p)
 
-        # existing code fails with certain step counts, like 9
-        try:
-            self.sampler.make_schedule(ddim_num_steps=steps,  ddim_eta=self.eta, ddim_discretize=p.ddim_discretize, verbose=False)
-        except Exception:
-            self.sampler.make_schedule(ddim_num_steps=steps+1, ddim_eta=self.eta, ddim_discretize=p.ddim_discretize, verbose=False)
-
+        self.sampler.make_schedule(ddim_num_steps=steps, ddim_eta=self.eta, ddim_discretize=p.ddim_discretize, verbose=False)
         x1 = self.sampler.stochastic_encode(x, torch.tensor([t_enc] * int(x.shape[0])).to(shared.device), noise=noise)
 
         self.init_latent = x
@@ -239,18 +245,14 @@ class VanillaStableDiffusionSampler:
         self.last_latent = x
         self.step = 0
 
-        steps = steps or p.steps
+        steps = self.adjust_steps_if_invalid(p, steps or p.steps)
 
         # Wrap the conditioning models with additional image conditioning for inpainting model
         if image_conditioning is not None:
             conditioning = {"c_concat": [image_conditioning], "c_crossattn": [conditioning]}
             unconditional_conditioning = {"c_concat": [image_conditioning], "c_crossattn": [unconditional_conditioning]}
 
-        # existing code fails with certain step counts, like 9
-        try:
-            samples_ddim = self.launch_sampling(steps, lambda: self.sampler.sample(S=steps, conditioning=conditioning, batch_size=int(x.shape[0]), shape=x[0].shape, verbose=False, unconditional_guidance_scale=p.cfg_scale, unconditional_conditioning=unconditional_conditioning, x_T=x, eta=self.eta)[0])
-        except Exception:
-            samples_ddim = self.launch_sampling(steps, lambda: self.sampler.sample(S=steps+1, conditioning=conditioning, batch_size=int(x.shape[0]), shape=x[0].shape, verbose=False, unconditional_guidance_scale=p.cfg_scale, unconditional_conditioning=unconditional_conditioning, x_T=x, eta=self.eta)[0])
+        samples_ddim = self.launch_sampling(steps, lambda: self.sampler.sample(S=steps, conditioning=conditioning, batch_size=int(x.shape[0]), shape=x[0].shape, verbose=False, unconditional_guidance_scale=p.cfg_scale, unconditional_conditioning=unconditional_conditioning, x_T=x, eta=self.eta)[0])
 
         return samples_ddim