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.

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  • 2025.00 - Released on 29 Oct 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).
Gabez Gabez
3 years ago
5 months ago
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sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2023.00.rar

Torrent downloaded (twice) and latest Winrar saying it's corrupt. 😢

Hoàng Thọ
2 years ago
1 year ago
31

Guys . Im using FM2022 and i dowloaded completed face megapack for FM2022 ( 14gb pack ) and updated with sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack2022.15_changes. Today sortitoutsi released 2023.00 for FM2023 with Torrent 9.59gb. Do i need to download it or just download the small updates file (95.5mb? to continue to use FM2023 players faces in FM202 version)?

 

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By Hoàng Thọ 11 October 2022 - 12:27 PM UTC 

Guys . Im using sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2022.15. Today sortitoutsi released 2023.00 for FM2023 with Torrent 9.59gb. Do i need to download it or just download the small updates file (95.5mb? to continue to use FM2023 players faces in FM202)?

 

If you were up-to-date untli 2022.15, you only have to download the small update file 👍

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By Hoàng Thọ 11 October 2022 - 12:27 PM UTC 

Guys . Im using FM2022 and i dowloaded completed face megapack for FM2022 ( 14gb pack ) and updated with sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack2022.15_changes. Today sortitoutsi released 2023.00 for FM2023 with Torrent 9.59gb. Do i need to download it or just download the small updates file (95.5mb? to continue to use FM2023 players faces in FM202 version)?

 

You mean you haven't downloaded the 2022.01 until 2022.14 changes? Then it would be best to just delete everything and download the 2023.00 torrent

Hoàng Thọ
2 years ago
1 year ago
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By BramNUFC 11 October 2022 - 12:37 PM UTC 

If you were up-to-date untli 2022.15, you only have to download the small update file 👍

 

Thanks you so much. xD. Sorry for asking kinda dumb question . 😄

Hoàng Thọ
2 years ago
1 year ago
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By BramNUFC 11 October 2022 - 12:38 PM UTC 

You mean you haven't downloaded the 2022.01 until 2022.14 changes? Then it would be best to just delete everything and download the 2023.00 torrent

 

No no . i downloaded Megapack torrent file from 22.00 and all 15 updates files from 01_changes to 0.15_changes

MarcLister
17 years ago
4 hours ago
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I'm getting a data after the end of payload data message in 7-Zip with the 2023.00 file.

hstrjj
10 years ago
1 day ago
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By MarcLister 11 October 2022 - 17:42 PM UTC 

I'm getting a data after the end of payload data message in 7-Zip with the 2023.00 file.

 

Same here, this is the message from 7zip. The last file it seems to have been extracting was faces/43080511.png, and the extracted directory only contains the faces subdirectory, with a size of ~1.5GB

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Footygamer
18 years ago
9 hours ago
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By hstrjj 12 October 2022 - 00:50 AM UTC 

Same here, this is the message from 7zip. The last file it seems to have been extracting was faces/43080511.png, and the extracted directory only contains the faces subdirectory, with a size of ~1.5GB

 

Do you have all the parts separately or the torrent?

MarcLister
17 years ago
4 hours ago
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@Footygamer  I downloaded the whole new 2023.00 pack of 9.52GB.

AL3XIOSLB
3 years ago
2 years ago
1

I downloaded the 2023.00 torrent. It has 378,395 items in the faces folder and 378,397 items in the iconfaces folder. There was 1 file that was corrupt while extracting but my finger clicked too fast and I missed it, sorry.

vonHolzminden
13 years ago
21 hours ago
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I´m sorry. I have downoaded the new megapack today and wanted to unzip the file with winrar. There seams to be a fault:

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By 6scholl6 12 October 2022 - 13:59 PM UTC 

I´m sorry. I have downoaded the new megapack today and wanted to unzip the file with winrar. There seams to be a fault:

 

How many images do you have in your faces folder?

 

It says that this face here is corrupted, if that's the only one then it shouldn't be a big problem https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/browse/1/97818/timeline

bagigino
13 years ago
7 months ago
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By AL3XIOSLB 12 October 2022 - 11:08 AM UTC 

I downloaded the 2023.00 torrent. It has 378,395 items in the faces folder and 378,397 items in the iconfaces folder. There was 1 file that was corrupt while extracting but my finger clicked too fast and I missed it, sorry.

 

same problem

MarcLister
17 years ago
4 hours ago
39
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I'm getting a “There are some data after the end of the payload data” error message on the 2023.00 rar when I right-click on the file and unpack it using 7-Zip. If I open the file and look inside the sortitoutsi folder the faces directory only appears to be about 1.65GB so although the file is 9.5GB to download the faces folder is the only sub-folder.

 

I downloaded the full pack. I just calculated the checksum of the file: 5b6644110230ee57a260227104baca7a. Does this match the original file on the server?

okulcio
15 years ago
6 days ago
5

I downloaded the 2023.00 torrent, and unpack it using 7-Zip. Same problem only 1.65 GB, only 62100 faces.

DrewJS66
15 years ago
8 hours ago
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Hi All,

Just downloaded 23.00 facepack but there are no icon faces. Am I missing something?? Thanks

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Issues are being looked at, sorry guys.

Alan Brito
2 years ago
4 months ago
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Hey. I'm having some problems with adding new faces to players. I got glitchy stuff. I re-scale the image to 180x180 png yet still having this problem. however some players seems work perfectly. I correctly added the commands in Config.xml but some are just glitchy images

 

BTW, I'm playing FM 16 and install the whole 8.0 megapack with their extensions

 

 

steff222
12 years ago
1 year ago
1

Hello, i am currently having a lot of trouble getting the facepack to work. I have tried to download both the free torrent, directly from the paid one here and even tried one of the older megapacks in case there was something wrong with the newest. The torrents i have downloaded via utorrent web. 

I think the problem may be happening in the process of unpacking the .rar file. 

 

I first tried using unarchiver on mac. When i get about halfway thru on unarchiver i start getting a lot of messages about “couldnt find or couldnt write file”. Towards the end unarchiver becomes unresponsive and quits. I end up with a folder with alot of pictures, but still incomplete. It contains less than half of those from the actual mega pack. Also no config file.

 

I then tried using Winzip for mac, which did not work at all. Does anyone have any tips regarding this, or have been in a similar situation?

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By Alan Brito 13 October 2022 - 00:35 AM UTC 

Hey. I'm having some problems with adding new faces to players. I got glitchy stuff. I re-scale the image to 180x180 png yet still having this problem. however some players seems work perfectly. I correctly added the commands in Config.xml but some are just glitchy images

 

BTW, I'm playing FM 16 and install the whole 8.0 megapack with their extensions

 

 

Might be this, I'd advice just completely deleting and installing again.There is no need to resize images or to edit the config file yourself btw

Vinceultras42
9 years ago
2 weeks ago
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It's only picture https://sortitoutsi.net/search/database?search=916347&type= that is the problem, otherwise the extract winrar archive gives no other problem 

mons
18 years ago
7 hours ago
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By Robin Heart 11 October 2022 - 11:55 AM UTC 

Very Thanks for the new 2023 File. 💕

sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2023.00 include only the faces Folder, and not also the iconfaces Folder

+ sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2023.00 include 62.100 faces, but not the config.xml File (with all Faces (over 377.000 Faces)

 

378,396  ? in my Folders (faces) are: 377.423

and i use all Files, Step by step: sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2022.00 - sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2023.00

 

in my Folders (iconfaces) are: 377.233

and i use all Files, Step by step: sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2022.00 - sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2022.15_changes

 

The difference will include duplicates, files with wrong extensions or filenames, players who are given inexistent UIDs etc. in previous updates, which are still within the megapack itself (due to the way it's built). The amount I indicate will be the amount of lines in the config file 🙂

 

 

 

 

By Alan Brito 13 October 2022 - 00:35 AM UTC 

Hey. I'm having some problems with adding new faces to players. I got glitchy stuff. I re-scale the image to 180x180 png yet still having this problem. however some players seems work perfectly. I correctly added the commands in Config.xml but some are just glitchy images

 

BTW, I'm playing FM 16 and install the whole 8.0 megapack with their extensions

 

 

This is covered in one of the FAQs:

 

The 22.0 torrent file was compressed in a way which has this effect on some images. It is suggested that you download an older torrent file which should not have this issue. Download links for older torrent versions is being made available below. It is recommended that you download the torrent file for the version after the one you’re playing since this will include all the update packs released for that iteration 😉

sortitoutsi_megapack_4.00 - uploaded before the release of FM12
sortitoutsi_megapack_5.00 - uploaded before the release of FM13
sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_6.00 - uploaded before the release of FM14
sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_7.00 - uploaded before the release of FM15
sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_8.00 - uploaded before the release of FM16
sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_9.00 - uploaded before the release of FM17
sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_10.00 - uploaded before the release of FM18
sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_11.00 - uploaded before the release of FM19
sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.00 - uploaded before the release of FM20
sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_13.00 - uploaded before the release of FM21
The older the torrent version you’ll download, the less likely it’ll be there’ll be any seeds for it, naturally.

 

 

 

 

By steff222 13 October 2022 - 06:57 AM UTC 

Hello, i am currently having a lot of trouble getting the facepack to work. I have tried to download both the free torrent, directly from the paid one here and even tried one of the older megapacks in case there was something wrong with the newest. The torrents i have downloaded via utorrent web. 

I think the problem may be happening in the process of unpacking the .rar file. 

 

I first tried using unarchiver on mac. When i get about halfway thru on unarchiver i start getting a lot of messages about “couldnt find or couldnt write file”. Towards the end unarchiver becomes unresponsive and quits. I end up with a folder with alot of pictures, but still incomplete. It contains less than half of those from the actual mega pack. Also no config file.

 

I then tried using Winzip for mac, which did not work at all. Does anyone have any tips regarding this, or have been in a similar situation?

 

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. I suggest trying to extract it at night after a system restart to have as clean a slate and as little system resource usage as possible.

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By MarcLister 12 October 2022 - 17:20 PM UTC 

I'm getting a “There are some data after the end of the payload data” error message on the 2023.00 rar when I right-click on the file and unpack it using 7-Zip. If I open the file and look inside the sortitoutsi folder the faces directory only appears to be about 1.65GB so although the file is 9.5GB to download the faces folder is the only sub-folder.

 

I downloaded the full pack. I just calculated the checksum of the file: 5b6644110230ee57a260227104baca7a. Does this match the original file on the server?

 

Can you try downloading now to see if the problem is still there?

 

And can anyone give an update on if the torrent is working or not?

MarcLister
17 years ago
4 hours ago
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By BramNUFC 14 October 2022 - 09:39 AM UTC 

Can you try downloading now to see if the problem is still there?

 

And can anyone give an update on if the torrent is working or not?

 

Same error message comes up instantly with 7-Zip. 1.67GB of files end up in the unzipped folder.

gai jin
14 years ago
2 months ago
45
By MarcLister 14 October 2022 - 10:47 AM UTC 

Same error message comes up instantly with 7-Zip. 1.67GB of files end up in the unzipped folder.

 

Same problem here.

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bambam51
2 years ago
7 months ago
1

Hello. I am really desperate. I downloaded the megapack but no new faces show up in the game.

 

  1. I put the “sortitoutsi” folder in the graphics folder
  2. Cache was cleared
  3. the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
  4. the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
  5. Skin has been reloaded
  6. No faces show up

M1 MB Air

 

Can anyone help please? 😢


Thanks!

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By MarcLister 14 October 2022 - 10:47 AM UTC 

Same error message comes up instantly with 7-Zip. 1.67GB of files end up in the unzipped folder.

 

Me too.

 

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