diff --git a/api/onnx_web/diffusers/pipelines/panorama.py b/api/onnx_web/diffusers/pipelines/panorama.py
index c3c518fe..cd9a32d0 100644
--- a/api/onnx_web/diffusers/pipelines/panorama.py
+++ b/api/onnx_web/diffusers/pipelines/panorama.py
@@ -628,6 +628,11 @@ class OnnxStableDiffusionPanoramaPipeline(DiffusionPipeline):
 
                 # reset the scheduler's internal timestep
                 if prev_step_index is not None:
+                    logger.debug(
+                        "resetting scheduler internal step index from %s to %s",
+                        self.scheduler._step_index,
+                        prev_step_index,
+                    )
                     self.scheduler._step_index = prev_step_index
 
                 value[:, :, h_start:h_end, w_start:w_end] += latents_view_denoised
@@ -711,6 +716,11 @@ class OnnxStableDiffusionPanoramaPipeline(DiffusionPipeline):
 
                     # reset the scheduler's internal timestep
                     if prev_step_index is not None:
+                        logger.debug(
+                            "resetting scheduler internal step index from %s to %s",
+                            self.scheduler._step_index,
+                            prev_step_index,
+                        )
                         self.scheduler._step_index = prev_step_index
 
                     if feather[0] > 0.0:
@@ -1061,6 +1071,11 @@ class OnnxStableDiffusionPanoramaPipeline(DiffusionPipeline):
 
                 # reset the scheduler's internal timestep
                 if prev_step_index is not None:
+                    logger.debug(
+                        "resetting scheduler internal step index from %s to %s",
+                        self.scheduler._step_index,
+                        prev_step_index,
+                    )
                     self.scheduler._step_index = prev_step_index
 
                 value[:, :, h_start:h_end, w_start:w_end] += latents_view_denoised
diff --git a/api/onnx_web/diffusers/pipelines/panorama_xl.py b/api/onnx_web/diffusers/pipelines/panorama_xl.py
index 70f3be28..e15915b3 100644
--- a/api/onnx_web/diffusers/pipelines/panorama_xl.py
+++ b/api/onnx_web/diffusers/pipelines/panorama_xl.py
@@ -470,6 +470,11 @@ class StableDiffusionXLPanoramaPipelineMixin(StableDiffusionXLImg2ImgPipelineMix
 
                 # reset the scheduler's internal timestep
                 if prev_step_index is not None:
+                    logger.debug(
+                        "resetting scheduler internal step index from %s to %s",
+                        self.scheduler._step_index,
+                        prev_step_index,
+                    )
                     self.scheduler._step_index = prev_step_index
 
                 value[:, :, h_start:h_end, w_start:w_end] += latents_view_denoised
@@ -562,6 +567,11 @@ class StableDiffusionXLPanoramaPipelineMixin(StableDiffusionXLImg2ImgPipelineMix
 
                     # reset the scheduler's internal timestep
                     if prev_step_index is not None:
+                        logger.debug(
+                            "resetting scheduler internal step index from %s to %s",
+                            self.scheduler._step_index,
+                            prev_step_index,
+                        )
                         self.scheduler._step_index = prev_step_index
 
                     if feather[0] > 0.0:
@@ -912,6 +922,11 @@ class StableDiffusionXLPanoramaPipelineMixin(StableDiffusionXLImg2ImgPipelineMix
 
                 # reset the scheduler's internal timestep
                 if prev_step_index is not None:
+                    logger.debug(
+                        "resetting scheduler internal step index from %s to %s",
+                        self.scheduler._step_index,
+                        prev_step_index,
+                    )
                     self.scheduler._step_index = prev_step_index
 
                 value[:, :, h_start:h_end, w_start:w_end] += latents_view_denoised
diff --git a/api/onnx_web/diffusers/run.py b/api/onnx_web/diffusers/run.py
index 0477a7f5..6606be69 100644
--- a/api/onnx_web/diffusers/run.py
+++ b/api/onnx_web/diffusers/run.py
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ from typing import Any, List, Optional
 from PIL import Image, ImageOps
 
 from ..chain import (
-    BlendDenoiseFastNLMeansStage,
     BlendImg2ImgStage,
     BlendMaskStage,
     ChainPipeline,
@@ -130,12 +129,6 @@ def run_txt2img_pipeline(
 
     # apply upscaling and correction, before highres
     highres_size = get_highres_tile(server, params, highres, tile_size)
-    if params.is_panorama():
-        chain.stage(
-            BlendDenoiseFastNLMeansStage(),
-            StageParams(tile_size=highres_size),
-        )
-
     first_upscale, after_upscale = split_upscale(upscale)
     if first_upscale:
         stage_upscale_correction(