diff --git a/src/utils.py b/src/utils.py
index 191e677..f9a2b4c 100755
--- a/src/utils.py
+++ b/src/utils.py
@@ -1394,7 +1394,8 @@ def save_training_settings( **kwargs ):
 	if settings['gpus'] > get_device_count():
 		settings['gpus'] = get_device_count()
 
-	settings['optimizer'] = 'adamw' if settings['gpus'] == 1 else 'adamw_zero'
+	# what an utter mistake this was
+	# settings['optimizer'] = 'adamw' if settings['gpus'] == 1 else 'adamw_zero'
 
 	if 'learning_rate_scheme' not in settings or settings['learning_rate_scheme'] not in LEARNING_RATE_SCHEMES:
 		settings['learning_rate_scheme'] = "Multistep"