How to upgrade Dolphin version while retaining settings?

[RachelB]

(12-11-2012, 10:26 PM)lukeman3000 Wrote:

(12-11-2012, 10:16 PM)gjfklhg Wrote: Alternatively just put the new .exe in your old dolphin folder. You may also want to copy over the new game inis, but these rarely change anyway.

So if I upgrade from 3.0-845 to 3.0-8.8, everything in the config file is the same? Would there be any negative consequence of doing this?

The config files change every so often, but it doesn't really matter. Opening dolphin will instantly set any missing values to the defaults.

Quote:Don't just move the new .exe into the old folder, though, as sometimes
there are things dolphin is dependant on that are updated, but not in
the .exe (or so someone has said at some point).

Technically true, but it is very rare for any such files to be changed, other than the game inis, which i already mentioned.

I mean, if you want to be safe, then just download the newest version, and change all of you're settings manually. It's probably a waste of time though. I always just copy the exe over myself.