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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Rüdi Schmid
I got the same problem 😢
STYLIANOS KALANTZAKIS
this is THE PROBLEM…. 😛
STYLIANOS KALANTZAKIS
and I just saw that I can not even download the metal logos
kingrobbo
https://sortitoutsi.net/content/56736/new-site-issues?page=13#comment_624563
known issue
kingrobbo
no need to start new threads/posts it has been reported
brunnofp
I cannot download the complete Megapack “Cut Out Faces” version 13.06 (19.25 GB), the links are not working… (Date: March 17, 2021).
And there is no link for torrent as well (in the bottom of the page https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/1/download).
Are you guys having the same issue?
brunnofp
I am sorry about that.
I just have seen previous message/reply informing that the site is having technical issues/troubles today (I have not seen it before I post… sorry).
I will try to download again another moment.
Thanks and best regards
KeMoX18
Would like to download complete pack for FM18..
ThaMks in advance
Liam_Kenny
For some reason all the files that I download for the updates have been corrupted according to Winrar and just stops???
mons
I have no idea what may have happened as I'm not on your computer. You're a premium member, just download the complete pack and you should be fine. I recommend using Chrome to do so, in order to resume the download should it stop at any stage.
Liam_Kenny
I've tried to download the complete megapack a few times. For some reason it stops downloading after 2GB on 10%
mons
It's a large file which inevitably means it'll take a fair while to download which inevitably there's more time for your internet connection to be interrupted. Like I told you earlier, if you download it with Google Chrome, you should be able to resume your download if this happens 👍
Liam_Kenny
It happens with the Logo megapack. The only way I could download them was by torrent then the changes but then the changes folder ends up corrupting error while unzipping?
mons
I've given you a solution to the problem already: resume the download when interrupted by using Google Chrome to download it 😕
Liam_Kenny
I’m using Google Chrome. It will literally not let me download anything else after 2GB when it reaches 10% no matter how many times I try and resume. Tried on Chrome, Firefox and Opera engines. Did the same to me on the logo mega pack. is there a torrent for the full updates megapack?
mons
Try downloading it on incognito mode. Some extensions have been known to affect file downloads for some reason, and running Chrome in incognito disables these…
Liam_Kenny
mons
And? Happens to me too. In most instances, it starts downloading again after a few seconds, and in the odd instance, the download stops and you press the resume button 😕
munegu221
Jack Lahne (93100461) is missing in the config file while his picture is in the pack.
mons
Very strange, no idea how that happened. Good spot, thanks for letting us know and it'll be added back in 13.08 👍
Womaz
My last update I did was 13.01
I am assuming I have to download all of the new packs after this date individually?
I cant find the instructions on how to update my faces megapack , can anyone point me in the right direction?
mons
You'll need to download all the update packs from 13.02 onwards.
It might be easier to show you how to install the update packs on TeamViewer rather than trying to explain with words tbh though 😉 In each case, it takes you 2 seconds to install it, and a couple of minutes for the files to extract.
Womaz
Hello again ;-)
I got quite good at it last time so i think I can do it myself . Seem to recall I do then in chronological order…….its just jogging the memory of how I did it.
I seem to recall there were instructions on this site somewhere?
mons
Essentially you copy the contents of the faces folder from the file you download into the faces folder on your computer. Same for the iconfaces.
Apply chronologically for each pack.
Womaz
I have downloaded the 6 update packs. Now i have to unzip them into the Graphics Folder….this is where I made an error last time. I have searched this site for the instructions but they may have been taken down?
mons
Shall we just do it via TeamViewer? Easier than looking for the instructions or fixing it up afterwards…
Womaz
Yeah OK…..-) I just feel I need to be able to do this myself for some reason ;-)
mons
I'll show you how to do the first one and then you can do all the others yourself 😉
Womaz
DO i just go into Team viewer now?
mons
If you're available now, sure!
Send me the details via PM though 😉