diff --git a/llama.cpp b/llama.cpp
index fcd6f276a..95ee6ffe4 100644
--- a/llama.cpp
+++ b/llama.cpp
@@ -5287,7 +5287,7 @@ struct llama_context_params llama_context_default_params() {
         /*.progress_callback           =*/ nullptr,
         /*.progress_callback_user_data =*/ nullptr,
         /*.low_vram                    =*/ false,
-        /*.mul_mat_q                   =*/ false,
+        /*.mul_mat_q                   =*/ true,
         /*.f16_kv                      =*/ true,
         /*.logits_all                  =*/ false,
         /*.vocab_only                  =*/ false,