
If something happens to a shared DAT file, either it goes missing or gets corrupted in some way, it can generate a "runtime" error message. Unfortunately, what makes DLL files so convenient and efficient, also makes them extremely vulnerable to problems.

The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II) could share the same game.dat file, saving valuable memory allocation, therefore making your computer run more efficiently.

These files were created so that multiple programs (eg. Dynamic Link Library files, like game.dat, are essentially a "guide book" that stores information and instructions for executable (EXE) files - like MpSigStub.exe - to follow.

Game.dat is considered a type of Dynamic Link Library (DLL) file. ✻ Portions of file data provided by Exiftool (Phil Harvey) distributed under the Perl Artistic License.
