With the regular updates Dolphin gets, giving us constant accuracy and performance improvements I try to keep on the bleeding edge of dev builds to play my games. However it's a bit of a pain to manually download and unzip the files regularly given the frequent updates that Dolphin gets. With that in mind I have made a script that uses Ketarin and Task Scheduler to check for updates daily and auto apply them. I have attached a .7z file which contains all the necessary files to set this up, or you could go to Ketarin's website to set it up yourself. For the steps on how to.
1. Unzip Ketarin-1.7.0.7z to your C:
2. Open up Task Scheduler
3. Create a new Basic Task
3a. Give it a name, "Dolphin Update" works
3b. Set the update interval to what you wish, weekly or daily works well
3c. Choose "Start A Program" for the action
3d. Browse to the "ketarin.exe" file in the extracted folder (should be C:\Ketarin-1.7.0\ketarin.exe) for the Program/script
3e. Set the "Add Arguments" as: /database=dolphin-jobs.db /silent /notify /log=SoftwareUpdates.log
3f. Have it "Start In" C:\Ketarin-1.7.0\
3f. Hit Finish.
Now you should have an automated update of Dolphin to grab the latest dev version daily without all the hassle of doing it yourself. Please feel free to give me any feedback to improve the script or other ways to make this better! Hope you all find this useful!
Note: The Default install location for Dolphin is in C:\Program Files\Dolphin-x64. If you have it installed elsewhere you may have to modify the command in Ketarin
Edit: Switched to using Bunny's easier method.
Edit 2: I just want to point out that this WILL invalidate your shader cache (each cache is specific to Dolphin version and GPU drivers), so it can be worthwhile to update less frequently to minimize micro-stuttering, especially if the latest changes don't affect your system or game.
1. Unzip Ketarin-1.7.0.7z to your C:
2. Open up Task Scheduler
3. Create a new Basic Task
3a. Give it a name, "Dolphin Update" works
3b. Set the update interval to what you wish, weekly or daily works well
3c. Choose "Start A Program" for the action
3d. Browse to the "ketarin.exe" file in the extracted folder (should be C:\Ketarin-1.7.0\ketarin.exe) for the Program/script
3e. Set the "Add Arguments" as: /database=dolphin-jobs.db /silent /notify /log=SoftwareUpdates.log
3f. Have it "Start In" C:\Ketarin-1.7.0\
3f. Hit Finish.
Now you should have an automated update of Dolphin to grab the latest dev version daily without all the hassle of doing it yourself. Please feel free to give me any feedback to improve the script or other ways to make this better! Hope you all find this useful!
Note: The Default install location for Dolphin is in C:\Program Files\Dolphin-x64. If you have it installed elsewhere you may have to modify the command in Ketarin
Edit: Switched to using Bunny's easier method.
Edit 2: I just want to point out that this WILL invalidate your shader cache (each cache is specific to Dolphin version and GPU drivers), so it can be worthwhile to update less frequently to minimize micro-stuttering, especially if the latest changes don't affect your system or game.