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.
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- 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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carlhelms
if Im honest, i task manager'ed outta there at around 10mins, i just wasn't sure all was well … but if you're suggesting it just needs a bit of time to load with the new images that's understandable and i'll give that a go now.
The loading screen with the “loading” on bottom right with the various languages just seemed to go on forever. I'll try now and see how i get on
carlhelms
holy smokes - it loaded in 2mins flat!?! interesting! ill keep an eye on it and hope it isnt a one off LOL thank you!! 🙂
mons
Restart your system and load FM up first thing, that'll help.
batluke
Same problem than eveyone ! Impossible to extract anything now … It takes 3 days to extract ! I mean, I think if I keep it extracting, in 3 months it would stay at te same level …
mons
It's not really the same problem as everyone, actually, no. Also, read the 10th FAQ at the top of the page 👍
batluke
Thanks but obviously is not that … It never ajust ^^
Liam Pond
Hi Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere but cant find it. So i paid for premium membership for the site, downloaded the mega pace pack but when i try and move the file from downloads to graphics file its estimated over 1 day? Surely something is wrong here? I am only moving one file to another that took 20 mins to download?
DZastr22
Hi all, I downloaded the sortitoutsi cut out faces megabuck and am attempting to move it to my graphics folder. I unzipped the file, grabbed the faces and iconfacees folders, and dragged them into my graphics folder, and upon doing this my file explorer just crashed. I now can't open my documents folder at all to get back to the graphics folder, every time I attempt to do so it just doesn't respond. Am I shit out of luck? Is there any fix to this?
mons
From the FAQ:
I’ve downloaded the megapack but it’s telling me that it’ll take a very long time to extract. Is this normal and what can I do?
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.
Restart your PC, and see if that resolves the issue.
Pato_Liam
Hello, when you download the update packs, where shall I extract them? If I extract them to my main facepack folder won't the config file override and make me lose loads of faces?
mons
Here's a video tutorial on how to install update packs:
Pato_Liam
Many thanks
yavkoadra
Hey everyone.
I am sorry if I haven't seen question that I will ask.
I downloaded megapack and extracted faces / icon faces into graphics folder.
But in the game players' faces areas are blank.
I think that I didn't extract config file of megapack and now I cannot find that.
Is problem that? (not to extract config file into folder)
If it is, can anybody upload or send only config file for megapack?
Thank you.
mons
You can download the latest update pack, and use the config from there 👍
yavkoadra
I've downloaded last update and copied/pasted them into FACES and ICONFACES folders.
Still players's faces are blank in the game.
What do I do wrong?
And what I can do more?
mons
Can I have screenshots of your megapack folder, showing clearly the full path it’s located in as well as how many images are in that folder?
yavkoadra
mons
as well as how many images are in that folder?
yavkoadra
5239.
Is it too low for megapack?
Maybe I put only update photos into folder instead of megapack photos.
mons
Yes, you should have around 460,000, so that's what's happened. Download the torrent file and start from there 👍
P-Jo11
Sorry if it's not the correct place to place it:
Do you change anything about the up- and download speed on sorti?
For 3-4 days up- and downloads of sources, previews, packs and anything else last several minutes.
Of course I've checked my internet, same data as always using a 100Mbps line via Telekom.
mons
Perhaps @Footygamer can provide an answer?
P-Jo11
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@mons
@Footygamer
My last upload of 45 C-O lasts nearly 10 minutes. I talk to @Julk44, his last upload of 10 pics was instantly done.
I do not use any VPN or anything else.
I'm looking forward to a solution solving my problem. Thank you.
Footygamer
@P-Jo11 there have not been any changes that may have caused this.
You said “up and downloads” takes several minutes, is the downloads part an exaggeration or genuine? For example I just downloaded your recent 45 image pack instantly, are you saying the download is taking minutes for you? Because that would definitely be a serious problem.
Would you be able to show a screenshot of the download running slow?
P-Jo11
Thank you for your reply. After clicking on reply, it lasts 20 seconds to respond. Other websites with many pictures ect like kicker.de open within 2 seconds.
Unfortunately any preview I click opens within one second. Also every single picture I download the same. I will show a screen after my next pack-upload, one of the biggest problems. Everthing I asked for is now okay. But there is the preview problem, I check every pic if it is worth to cut, see the screen below.
Footygamer
Thanks @P-Jo11 when you are talking about images they should generally be from a different domain are you saying that when the domain is “sortitoutsi.net” AND urls where the domain is “b-cdn.net” they both take a long time?
e.g. https://sortitoutsidospaces.b-cdn.net/media/BfQq02S5Stc0dVSaN5zopJteNfAu0zADZkQPKnoh.png
That would indicate the problem is definitely your end because the stuff hosted on “b-cdn.net” is a totally different company, in a different country with different servers, 100% different in everyway.
Have you tried a few other things:
Answers to those questions will help narrow it down.
P-Jo11
Thank you for your reply. Seems to be a problem with firefox (several websites didn't work well after the last updates). Neither Edge nor Safari are this lame, no matter if I use mobile devices or PC while checking the 6 points you've written. Thank you for your help. Case closed. 🙂
Footygamer
Strange Firefox for me on Mac is absolutely fine. You might try uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox if you want to keep using it.
It could also be a Firefox extension that isn't enabled on Chrome, particularly any anti virus ones.
mark_flem
I'm having trouble with the complete cut out face pack. It downloads fine but when I go to extract it into the graphics folder it won't complete & I get an error code.
0x8096002A: No description error available
mons
What program are you using to extract it? I suggest Winrar.