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 475,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
- 480,827
- 2025.00 - Released on 29 Oct 2024
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'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.
This is what the MP folder should look like:
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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nmwald1
Thanks
Rostislav Stoyanov
You need to download the hole pack or if you did download it before, you can download all the updates only.
nmwald1
Ok, thanks for the help! I'm not sure if it's just an overload on the server right now but I can't seem to download 12.7 and 12.8. It gets part way through, slows and then says there's a network connection error.
mons
As you can imagine, this time of year is quite busy so the servers are getting a bit of a battering right now. If you use Google Chrome, you should be able to resume a download if it's stopped.
P.S. As a premium member, it may be easier to download the full file rather than 12.7, 12.8 and all the update packs till 12.18 and also the 13.0 update pack too 😉
HeyMyNamesJaack
nmwald1
Yeah, I figured the servers are being overloaded still. Thanks for the heads up though. By downloading the full file do you mean the complete pack that's 17 Gib?
mons
Bit hard to tell without knowing what you've got and where you're trying to extract it. Screenshots always help 😉
If you've got the whole 17GB+ file and you're extracting it with Winrar, you may be on the right track, however. It should take a while given the sheer massiveness of the file, but 300+ hours does sound a tad on the excessive side.
That said, speed of extraction is affected by what you're doing on your PC. If you've got FM running, a browser window or two open and some other apps in the background, then the speed of extraction will slow down correspondingly. Think of it as when you're at work - you may be able to do a job quickly but you won't do it as quickly if you've got 5 other things going on 😉
If need be, restart your PC/laptop before going to bed and extract it then - should be done by the time you get up 🙂
mons
Yep.
nmwald1
Typically you will see a really long amount of time when you first start the extraction/download. That's because the connection starts weak but builds strength as it goes. Give it a few minutes and you'll probably see that 300 hours go down to 30 minutes or so.
nmwald1
Thanks for the help again! It's been running about 10 minutes and it's almost complete! Just as fast, if not faster and much, much simpler. Thanks again!
HeyMyNamesJaack
Thanks buddy, I’ll just extract and it see how it gets along
HeyMyNamesJaack
Ok so far sounds like good news, I’ll restart it and extract it and leave it to go, fingers crossed that should get it sorted. Appreciate that 🙂
Razoor1860
mons
There's a link to contribute up at the top.
Jonno_44
I downloaded the "Cut out Player Faces Megapack" followed the guidelines on how to upload and these settings to change on FM itself, referred back to my FM20,19 etc file structure to make sure it is correct, and the face pack still isn't appearing on FM21.
I'm not sure if this is because FM21 is in BETA or if the megapack isn't compatible with FM21? If anyone has managed to get it to work on FM21, please can you provide some help?
Jonno
Zander86
Jonno_44
jordaf
I downloaded the full face pack (about 17GB or so) and extracted via 7zip, so it’s now in my graphics > sort it out si folder.
Ever since then, FM21 gets stuck on the loading screen and won’t load up at all. I’ve read a fix would be to remove the pack and reinstall, although reluctant to do so as extraction took hours. Any help?
Cheers!
EDIT: I dragged the face pack out of the FM21 folder and the game loads up fine now. Is there a way I can add the pack without preventing the game loading up?
Capitano80
mons
Can you post a screenshot of where you placed the file? I suspect it might not be the right place.
mons
Can we see inside the faces folder? You should have over 279,000 images in there plus a file titled config.xml, and the total size of the file you should have download should be well over 17GB. If that is not the case, you will not have downloaded the full megapack, but most probably only an update pack.
Same as the above. Ideally you post screenshots of your faces folder, showing clearly the path it's installed in as well.
Capitano80
or a different place this year?
jordaf
Thanks - have attached the path.
Ben Morrison
Thanks
Tedium_Kits
mons
Lo scriverò in italiano perché non capisco quello che hai scritto.
Non ho idea di come sia la struttura della tua cartella perché è la TUA cartella non la mia; non ho il controllo su cosa sia o cosa contenga. A meno che non mi mandi una screenshot della TUA cartella, non ci sono molti altri consigli che ti posso dare 😢
A proposito, va nello stesso posto dell'anno scorso.
That's fine. Remove the sharing to OneDrive option for the graphics folder as that could cause a fair bit of slowdown on your PC in terms of ensuring the same files are present on both your system and OneDrive.
Can we see inside the faces folder?
How long were you waiting for the game to load? It should take a little while the first time you install the files, but much less thereafter. We're talking 5-10 minutes, plus it also depends what applications you're running at the same time and the speed of your system.
Use Chrome to download it. It contains a resume download option which allows resumption from the spot it was interrupted. In some instances, you may need to resume one or more times. This should allow you to overcome this issue.
Is there not an option here to download it?
Tedium_Kits
No. Following that link, there are two "Download Complete Pack" buttons, as shown here: http://prntscr.com/vi4wea
Clicking either one takes me back to https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/megapack/361 where there is no option to download the torrent.
A member on the Discord did share the torrent file with me, so I am currently in the process of downloading it.
mons
Thanks for that 👍
I'll raise it as a bug on the site because I can see it on that page just beneath were you put your arrow, possibly because I'm a staff member.
Jonno_44
Here you go, attached my files. You'll see that it is 17.3GB, and I've attached the paths of both files. Also attached both config files. Attachment 4 is thegraphics>faces config file, and attachment 5 is config for icon faces folder
mons
All looks fine there.
And have you changed the preferences as outlined in the first post?