Cut Out Player Faces Megapack

Our Cut-Out Faces Megapack is the biggest collection of Football Manager Player Faces available. All players are available in the default cut-out style. When you download our Cut-Out Faces Megapack, you'll receive over 450,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.

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  • 2024.06 - Released on 17 Mar 2024
Cut Out Player Faces Megapack

Installation Instructions

1. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using Steam on Windows?

Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. Although it is for an older version of FM, the steps are still the same.  You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.

 

This is what the MP folder should look like for the respective version of FM you're using:


Anything beyond the blue line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders. 

 

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:

 

To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.

 

Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).

 

Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked

 

After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.

 

Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.

 


2. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using a Mac OS?

From FM20 onwards, there's been a substantial change to how Mac FM documents are stored. Previously the files would automatically go in the Documents folder here:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x

 

Now the files will instead appear in the following location:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x

 

By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:

Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 202x -> graphics’ (create the last folder if necessary

 

Anything beyond this path line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.

 

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:

 

To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.

 

Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).

 

Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked

 

After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.

 

Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.

 


3. I don’t want to have the megapack in the default user data folder – can I place it elsewhere and how would I do so?

You need to change your user data location. Simple steps on how to do so can be found here.

The above step does not apply if you’re playing on Gamepass, in which case the user data location has to be the default one (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)

It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.

 


4. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using Gamepass?

If you're using Gamepass, then you have to use the default user data folder - point 4 above does not and can not apply to you.

Frequently Asked Questions

If you've never downloaded the pack before, you should just download the larger "complete pack".

If you're not a premium member, it is recommended that you download the base megapack via torrent by going to our cut-out megapack download page. After which, you should then download all the update packs released to date and apply them chronologically.

If you're a premium member, just download the most recent complete pack.

If you already have a version of our Cut-Out Faces Megapack installed, then click "Download Latest Changes" and you'll be presented with a list of all the updates we've released since you've last downloaded a file. Simply download any you might have missed, starting with the oldest.
Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. Although it is for an older version of FM, the steps are still the same. You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.

This is what the MP folder should look like:
https://i.imgur.com/85lGeDc.png

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:

https://i.imgur.com/jbZkFfw.png

To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.

Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).

Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked

After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.

Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
From FM20 onwards, there's been a substantial change to how Mac FM documents are stored. Previously the files would automatically go in the Documents folder here:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x

Now the files will instead appear in the following location:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x

By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:

Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 202x’

Anything beyond the blue line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/jbZkFfw.png

To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.

Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).

Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked

After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.

Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
You need to change your user data location. Simple steps on how to do so can be found here.

The above step does not apply if you’re playing on Gamepass, in which case the user data location has to be the default one (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)

It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.
If you're using Gamepass, then you have to use the default user data folder (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)
The torrent file includes the base megapack uploaded just before that year’s FM version is released. Any and all subsequent update packs are to be downloaded separately.
For those who have never used torrents, in the vast majority of cases, it's just a question of downloading the client program (a small file, less than 1MB) and then downloading the megapack torrent file (a tiny file, around 20k) and then letting the program do the job.

Torrent files need a torrent client to be downloaded. I personally use µTorrent but other common clients are BitTorrent, Vuze and Deluge. For those using torrents for the first time, here is a general walk-through on how to download torrents and a specific guide for µTorrent.

Be aware that it will take a substantial amount of time to download the file due to its sheer size and that other people depend on you hosting the file to get it so please leave your torrent client on after you have fully downloaded it. The etiquette is generally accepted to be to upload as much as you download, although this might not always be possible. The older the torrent file, the less likely it is that there will still be users seeding it.
You need to copy and overwrite the faces and the new config file from the update pack into the faces folder and follow the same procedure for the iconfaces folder.

If done correctly, you should be asked if you want to overwrite files – accept. You should have one folder for faces and another folder for iconfaces, and no sub-folder whatsoever in them.

These steps are to be repeated for every update pack downloaded, and they are to be installed chronologically.
Please report this so that they can be reuploaded.
Extracting the file will take a while, but it shouldn't take the hours and hours that the program extracting will sometimes say it will. To speed it up, it is recommended that you have as few programs running as possible so that the system can dedicate as many resources to the extraction as it possibly can.

Secondly, for files as large as this, the calculation of the extraction time will be wildly incorrect at the start. After a while, it'll show a more realistic timeframe, which shouldn't be more than an hour or two if you have a good setup and few programs running at the same time.
You might have a poor internet connection or your browser might have some extensions which interrupt this download. Having loads of downloads ongoing and/or streaming may also de-prioritise this download.

Try using Google Chrome in incognito mode (or the equivalent mode for other browsers) and you should be able to resume the download from the point it was interrupted, if that happens.
This download has two folders: one is the faces folder which contains the cut-outs which should be displayed on this screen. There is also a file titled config.xml which tells the game which images to assign to which person. The other folder is the iconfaces folder which contains the smaller images displayed near a person's name on the menu which comes up when you right-click on them, and also includes a different config file for this folder.

The likelihood is that you've put the iconfaces in the faces folder, or used the wrong config file for each folder. As a result, the smaller images (in 25x18) are being upscaled to be displayed in the person's profile, hence the blurring. Re-install the update pack again, making sure you put the contents of each folder in the right place.
The most recent update pack will include the most recent config file, so you can choose to download it and use it from there.

Alternatively, you can download fmXML and generate a config yourself. There's a video on YouTube on how to use it but it's really easy and the instructions are quite straight-forward.
Down the years, after an update pack was released, it was noted that some images included therein where of the wrong person, with a wrong extension or duplicated. Due to the way the download system is structured, these cannot be removed from the download, so there may well be a couple of hundred images’ worth of difference, depending on the version you download.
Our megapack covers 25,000 teams and it's impossible to cater for these kind of requests since players and staff get transferred or sacked or retire etc and recreating and reuploading 25,000 different smaller packs would be an impossible task. That's why we have all the images in a megapack so that everything is captured therein.
These persons do not appear in the default database for licensing reasons. This means that they only appear in your save-game because they were added via a custom file, generally the real name fix file. However, this means that their UID (which is what is used to map a person's image to the right individual) is different, and so the game cannot assign the image to them from your existing facepack.

To get them to show, you should individually download the cut-out faces that you want from here (or use the UID to find them in your existing facepack if you don't use the cut-out megapack), put them in a separate folder to your existing facepack and create a config file just for them using the method outlined in here (which works for all facepack styles, not just the cut-out megapack).
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
It shows up in m DL file as 'unconfirmed 616227.crdownload' with a file size of 9,108,207KB

Looks like it didn't download fully and you will need to redownload it.
karlh1234
13 years ago
4 months ago
4
Premium
I have downloaded this and its saved to my downloads. However when I try to unzip it fails to and stays as a RAR file
Any help??
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
I have downloaded this and its saved to my downloads. However when I try to unzip it fails to and stays as a RAR file
Any help??

How large is the file you've downloaded and what program are you using to extract it?
karlh1234
13 years ago
4 months ago
4
Premium
Its the 8 Gb pack on here

I tried moving it to the graphics-facepacks folder

Then try and open with Zip Opener. It then crashes
karlh1234
13 years ago
4 months ago
4
Premium
How large is the file you've downloaded and what program are you using to extract it?
Its the 8 Gb pack on here

I tried moving it to the graphics-facepacks folder

Then try and open with Zip Opener. It then crashes
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
Its the 8 Gb pack on here

I tried moving it to the graphics-facepacks folder

Then try and open with Zip Opener. It then crashes

Can you give me a screenshot of the downloaded file's properties? Also, can you please use Winrar to extract the file?
Scurvy10
6 years ago
6 years ago
1
When I download an update I have to copy all images to their folders ... the config.xml file do I also have to copy? Thanks in advance
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
When I download an update I have to copy all images to their folders ... the config.xml file do I also have to copy? Thanks in advance

Yes you do.
Vinceultras42
8 years ago
17 hours ago
7,706
Torrent Complete Pack - sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_9.09.rar error

Unfortunately this file could not be found on our servers. We apologise for this error, please report this error to an administrator.
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
Torrent Complete Pack - sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_9.09.rar error

Unfortunately this file could not be found on our servers. We apologise for this error, please report this error to an administrator.

That file shouldn't and doesn't exist, so you're being linked to a file which isn't there. The link will be removed shortly, but in the meantime you should be able to download the latest update pack and the complete pack in the usual manner.
okuyr
11 years ago
3 years ago
2
As far as I can tell neither the torrent of the 9.09 complete file nor the one for the 9.09 update seem to be working.
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
As far as I can tell neither the torrent of the 9.09 complete file nor the one for the 9.09 update seem to be working.

That's because they don't exist and the links to the files were created by mistake. They should be removed shortly, so please ignore them for now.
benzema4ever
10 years ago
1 year ago
7
Hi all , I have the Version ( Megapack 7.0 ) which belongs to FM 2015 , my question is :
Can I update it to the latest update without the need for downloading 8 GB or more ??
I have so slow internet connection , and it will take days to download the file from scratch !
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
Hi all , I have the Version ( Megapack 7.0 ) which belongs to FM 2015 , my question is :
Can I update it to the latest update without the need for downloading 8 GB or more ??
I have so slow internet connection , and it will take days to download the file from scratch !

You can download all the individual update packs from 7.0 onwards up to the latest megapack, there'll be around 30 of them, I think, give and take. Frankly, it's easier to just download the 9.0 torrent file.
benzema4ever
10 years ago
1 year ago
7
Is there an updated Pack ( Version 9.09 ) for the torrent ??
could you give me the link , please
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
Is there an updated Pack ( Version 9.09 ) for the torrent ??
could you give me the link , please

Torrents are only available for the main releases around the time the game is launched, so you should download 9.0, then any subsequent update packs after that.
Emba
12 years ago
4 months ago
109
I have a problem. Many faces just show up as icon-img and not as an regular img. U guys have a solution?

One more question. When i copy the updated files into main folder, should i rewrite? I always done that.

And thx for the incredible work!
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
I have a problem. Many faces just show up as icon-img and not as an regular img. U guys have a solution?

One more question. When i copy the updated files into main folder, should i rewrite? I always done that.

And thx for the incredible work!

Looks like you may have installed an icon faces config into the main pack folder. Can you check your MP and icon folders and tell me how many images you have in each please?

Yes, you should overwrite the files when updating the megapack
Emba
12 years ago
4 months ago
109
Looks like you may have installed an icon faces config into the main pack folder. Can you check your MP and icon folders and tell me how many images you have in each please?

Yes, you should overwrite the files when updating the megapack


iconfaces = 185 537 files. Config included
MP = 177 051 files. Config included.
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
iconfaces = 185 537 files. Config included
MP = 177 051 files. Config included.

You have around 10k images missing from the MP

Can you check the date last modified for the config file in both the icons folder and the main pack? So I can tell which packs you're missing.
Emba
12 years ago
4 months ago
109
You have around 10k images missing from the MP

Can you check the date last modified for the config file in both the icons folder and the main pack? So I can tell which packs you're missing.


IF last modified 17-07-24
MP last modified 17-07-24

I downloaded that file today. Thats the newest upload right?

https://ibb.co/hnLoCF
If this helps. My most recent downloads.
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
IF last modified 17-07-24
MP last modified 17-07-24

I downloaded that file today. Thats the newest upload right?

https://ibb.co/hnLoCF
If this helps. My most recent downloads.

I'm afraid it looks like you did not install the files correctly, however I can't tell where you went wrong

Which method did you use to get the base megapack folder? Do you remember which version it was? Do you still have the files at in that screenshot at your end?
Emba
12 years ago
4 months ago
109
I'm afraid it looks like you did not install the files correctly, however I can't tell where you went wrong

Which method did you use to get the base megapack folder? Do you remember which version it was? Do you still have the files at in that screenshot at your end?


Downloaded complete pack 15-08-26. After that ive missed 8 updates out of 28th.

Think im gonna download the mainpack (9.0) again and then download the other ones and update mainpack in RIGHT order.
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
Downloaded complete pack 15-08-26. After that ive missed 8 updates out of 28th.

Think im gonna download the mainpack (9.0) again and then download the other ones and update mainpack in RIGHT order.

That's probably for the best. 9.0 includes the whole icon pack, just so you know
Emba
12 years ago
4 months ago
109
Good to know. And again thx for help and the awesome work! 👌
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
Good to know. And again thx for help and the awesome work! 👌

Welcome
jimjam26
12 years ago
2 months ago
14
Premium
Hi I'm having problems downloading 9.07,9.08 and 9.09 face pack updates. Every time I try it comes up with a download interrupted message and stops.

Is this happening to anyone else, if not does anyone know what's going wrong and how I can resolve it please
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
Hi I'm having problems downloading 9.07,9.08 and 9.09 face pack updates. Every time I try it comes up with a download interrupted message and stops.

Is this happening to anyone else, if not does anyone know what's going wrong and how I can resolve it please

Hmm, it may be a temporary outage in the servers. Also, if you're using Google Chrome, you should be able to resume the download.
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
ive had to remove, my megapack folder and restart as its got corrupted some how...but now every time i try and re install the complete mega pack..it comes up with network error and wont let me resume download this is happening at about 7gb of the 8.7gb download

I'm continuing our chat here as it's the right place to do so, and also in case it helps someone else too

I can suggest trying to download it at different times, but if you keep having this issue, it may be worth downloading the 9.0 megapack via torrent, then the subsequent update packs through this site
jimjam26
12 years ago
2 months ago
14
Premium
I'm continuing our chat here as it's the right place to do so, and also in case it helps someone else too

I can suggest trying to download it at different times, but if you keep having this issue, it may be worth downloading the 9.0 megapack via torrent, then the subsequent update packs through this site


thanks for your reply, I completely removed all face packs I had on my computer then reinstalled the complete megapack and it all works fine now, so I believe that there must have been a disruption in the serve during download which caused the issues I was having.

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