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 480,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
- 482,917
- 2025.01 - Released on 04 Dec 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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mons
As a premium member, the link to the torrent file is not display because it's considered sufficient that you can download the file directly from the site...
Howlitzer
Ah, I see, much appreciated. I am currently using a very slow connection and was hoping for the flexibility of being able to pause and resume the download.
mons
Perhaps you could leave it downloading overnight 😉
Brobbeast
I downloaded the Complete Cut Out Faces Megapack worth of 18.03 GB and lots of time, did every step correct, but most faces are still not shown in game, like for example Messi or Ronaldo, or even teams in the Premier League.
I checked the folder and saw it has a size of 598 MB when it finished it downloading.
What is going on?
Do I have to download every 19 steps aswell?
mons
It's not very clear what exactly you mean - have you download the complete megapack and have a file 18.03GB in size ready to be extracted or is the file you downloaded only 598MB?
If the former, then it must not have extracted fully. Remove the 598MB file and try to extract it again 👍
If the latter, try downloading the torrent to get the base 13.0 megapack, then download the 13.01 and 13.02 update packs separately 👍
Brobbeast
I download the latest "Complete File", the 13.02 update, but it seems that I have to download al the steps if I am correct?
That seems a bit odd to me, since every file takes a couple hours to finish..
mons
Let's have a screenshot of the file(s) you've downloaded.
Brobbeast
mons
I meant the actual file on your computer. You could have clicked on any one of these links 😉
Brobbeast
The zip one (extracted)
mons
It's almost like you're deliberately not giving me what I'd need 🙂 Let me try and be a bit more specific 😉
Either give me a screenshot of the unextracted file wherever it downloaded to on your PC (e.g. your Download folder), or give me a screenshot of the contents of your faces folder (clearly showing the amount of files in it).
Ideally, both tbh 🙂
Brobbeast
Lets try again 🙂
I hope that this is enough..
mons
You haven't downloaded the full megapack, just the 13.02 update pack.
Download the 13.0 torrent and the 13.01 update pack. The 13.02 pack you've got already.
When the 13.0 torrent is done, extract it, then install the 13.01 and 13.02 update packs respectively. It should go 13.0 > 13.01 > 13.02
👍
Brobbeast
Oke, thanks.
Do I need to download all the parts (1 -> 19) of the 13.00 torrent? Or just the latest one.. (Part 19/19)
mons
The torrent is a single file which gives you the whole 13.0 download. An explanation of how torrent files work is in the first post of this thread.
If you're going to download the split files, which is what you seem to be referring to in your post, you'll need to download them all.
They're separate download processes, though you arrive at the same conclusion eventually 😉
Clive Sonderman
Any suggestions is appreciated
mons
a) You need to make sure you change the preferences as indicated in the opening post
b) If that doesn't work, post screenshots of the folder in which the faces folder is located, as well as a screenshot of the faces folder itself. In the latter case, ideally the amount of files therein is also visible. On Windows, it's usually in the bottom left of the folder.
Clive Sonderman
Yes I’ve done the preferences changes on interface.
Ok will do that when I get home from work later. Thanks
mons
The likelihood is that you've got another folder and/or another config in your graphics folder with the same config but without the full megapack complement. Perhaps I may spot it through your screenshots.
Banana_Kun
mons
Course it works. You either haven't downloaded the right file or you haven't installed it properly.
Can we have screenshots of the folder you've installed this download in?
MattAesir
My facepack has also randomly stopped working...
mons
Same advice as what I said to the other gentleman; screenshots please 🙂
MattAesir
mons
Everything seems to be installed fine, but there's only so much I can deduct from screenshots.
You must have changed something because things don't just stop working like that. Maybe you added an update pack for a file, added or deleted something or installed some other graphics not in the right manner, which will have had the unintended effect of causing other graphics not be displayed. Whatever you did, you'll need to undo it and that will hopefully suffice. If not, you may need to download everything all over again.
If this rings a bell, can you give me screenshot(s) of the folder(s) in which changes were made?
H Akhi
My problem is I have a 64gb usb 3.0 flash drive and about half way through copying the facepack it says "disk full not enough space" - usb actually says that all of the 64gb is used up. Dont understand why its happening when it shouldnt even take up half the space, Ive tried the format to exfat, disk utility (erase) method etc still keeps happening. Any ideas what to do?
mons
I'm not sure how we can help. It's not really an issue related to the megapack itself but to the usb flash drive. Maybe check your Recycle Bin to see if there are any previously deleted files still taking up space on it. When it's 'empty', how much free space does it show on your 'This PC' page?
tonediary
I've tried this with 2 different computers , same thing happening. Surely somebody else is having this problem?
tonediary
Have you solved this problem?
mons
The very next comment after this very post explains what needs to be done:
Reboot your computer, so you are sure the computer is not running an over load of programs. Then just unzip the file... sometimes with such a big file the computer gets the calculation of extraction time wrong and it speeds up after a while.
Be prepared for it to take a fair while. It may take around an hour or slightly less with all conditions being ideal.