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i get an error saying i need to check my PIF file, whats one of those and how do i fix it

[NrmMyth]

More information wouldn't be bad. k:

[Virgil]

*.pif file it's a shorcut (file with big letters "MS-DOS") for dos applications ,seems what paths in it wrote incorrect ,so right click on it & edit path to *. exe file and directory. Or simply delete it & run game's exe file .

[Data]

sometimes it helps to just delete the pif file

[NrmMyth]

Originally posted by Virgil@Apr 25 2005, 10:41 PM
*.pif file it's a shorcut (file with big letters "MS-DOS") for dos applications ,seems what paths in it wrote incorrect ,so right click on it & edit path to *. exe file and directory. Or simply delete it & run game's exe file .

I knew that...

[Eagle of Fire]

Pif files are made specially for a computer. If you don't have the exact same setting than the computer which created the .pif then you have 80% chance that it doesn't work at all.

Better leave those .pif alone. You don't need them to run the game(s) anyways.

[dr_st]

Yeah, but as long as they are there, Windows will attempt to run them when you run the application, so like was said - delete it.

[Eagle of Fire]

I don't know which kind of OS you are using, but when I launch an .exe with my Win XP it doesn't look for a .pif at all. If I click on the .pif then it will use it to run the game.

Pif are really like Windows "shortcuts" anyways.

[dr_st]

If you run X.EXE, which is a DOS program and there exists X.PIF in the same directory - Windows (all versions) uses the information in X.PIF. I don't know, maybe there is some setting to change it, but by default that's the way it is.