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 450,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.

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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).
bazmaestro
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By blackmetalboon | Permalink | On 04 January 2013 - 08:17 AM
It looks like this may not have extracted properly, I would suggest trying it again using winRAR.


Worked a treat, thanks!
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By Rowan | Permalink | On 05 January 2013 - 09:49 AM
Jojo, I know you have said yes to this question already, but are you SURE you have unticked Use skin cache & ticked "always reload on confirm" in prefs. Perhaps this has changed since you played the other night? Other options would be to try moving the folder into the other SI windows path - nevre sure why Windows 7 creates two, but this is often a problem. Or finally clear the FM Cache

Wacko - I think you probably already realise the problem (3,451 images) Firstly did you wait for the the entire download to finish before extracting, and secondly you must use winRAR to extract the file or UnArchiver on Mac; - best to extract it to your desktop, check you have all 112k ish images and a config and then move it to your SI/FM13/graphics/faces folder. You can find the size of the config by right clicking it and selecting properties.

Blackmetal - snap! At least we're thinking the same things


Thanks a lot for all ur help an reply lads,but all the right boxes are ticked/unticked and I even cleared the cache. I just can't understand how its naw working its driving me mad,it bloody just teased me the other night by letting me see how good it looks lol
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By jojobuffon | Permalink | On 05 January 2013 - 11:06 AM
Thanks a lot for all ur help an reply lads,but all the right boxes are ticked/unticked and I even cleared the cache. I just can't understand how its naw working its driving me mad,it bloody just teased me the other night by letting me see how good it looks lol


Have you downloaded update 5.3 yet? It might be worth doing as it will provide you with the latest config file.
mons
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By Koloale | Permalink | On 04 January 2013 - 16:12 PM
The latest pack (16 parts), the complete pack and the pack contains around that amount of images. i've downloaded the pack twice and nothing changed.

At the end of the process, you should have one folder (and one folder only) with over 122,000 images (if you've downloaded 5.03) and a config.xml. Can you confirm this is the case?
Jogo Bonito
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Hi All

First time poster so apologies if in the wrong place. I'm a technological novice but managed somehow to download (for the first time) the previous Megapack (5.2) which added loads of player faces.

However I found it also removed lots of first team player faces that I had in my original save (at FC Copenhagen). Is that correct or have I made some schoolboy error? My real life team is Reading and I also see that only a couple of players have their faces, which seems odd as they are (at least until May) in the EPL.

Would appreciate any advice (but please keep it simple if you can). Thanks in advance.
Rowan
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Hi Lawrence, welcome to the community.

Usual questions...

1) Where have you put the Megapack folder - exact location please
2) How many images do you have inside the folder?
3) Do you have config file inside that folder and if so what size is it?
4) Before extracting (using winRAR) what size was the downloaded file?
Jogo Bonito
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Thanks Rowan

I will try to check those details when I get home from work and try to answer.

Cheers.
Eds
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Tried the new 5.03 megapack but still no luck. Network error after 1.3GB of the 5.3GB this time. Odd.
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By Eds | Permalink | On 05 January 2013 - 21:08 PM
Tried the new 5.03 megapack but still no luck. Network error after 1.3GB of the 5.3GB this time. Odd.


Hi guys, first time poster but i've been using the megapacks for some time... just like Eds above me my download keeps cutting out and saying Network error after it reaches various points, must have happened 5 or 6 times now. I'm now trying to do it by downloading the 5.0 torrent ( which is taking an age - do you know how long it should roughly take?) and downloading the individual 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 updates. I think if i extract them in that order it should still work fine?

Don't suppose anyone knows why the full download for 5.3 keeps cutting out?

Thanks in advance
Footygamer
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The 5.3 file really shouldn't be cutting out. Can I ask for specific information about your connection:

What country are you in?
What browser are you trying to download it with?
What kind of internet connection do you have (speed mb/s)?
How long does it roughly say it should take and how long does it take to fail?
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By Rob | Permalink | On 05 January 2013 - 23:26 PM
The 5.3 file really shouldn't be cutting out. Can I ask for specific information about your connection:

What country are you in?
What browser are you trying to download it with?
What kind of internet connection do you have (speed mb/s)?
How long does it roughly say it should take and how long does it take to fail?


Thanks for the reply.

I'm in London
Using Google Chrome
Connection is excellent according to Windows, and internet speed is 72mb/s (is that any good by the way?)
Right now its saying about 2 hours.. and its been cutting out at various different stages, sometimes its 1gb in sometimes 3... last time it made it to 5.2 then stopped.. the file was in my downloads folder so i assumed it must have been partially downloaded, but when i tried to extract it it said the file wasnt supported by my extracter (it was a .rar and my extractor is IZArc)

I downloaded the Logopack with success earlier and that worked fine, as did the fix for the fake names. To be honest i'm baffled.


EDIT: Just did a check to see if 72 mbps is typical and most answers on the internet seemed to be lower, so i used this website http://speedtest.net/ which told me my download speed is 3.5mbps... thats whilst downloading the 5.0 torrent currently.
Eds
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By Rob | Permalink | On 05 January 2013 - 23:26 PM
The 5.3 file really shouldn't be cutting out. Can I ask for specific information about your connection:

What country are you in?
What browser are you trying to download it with?
What kind of internet connection do you have (speed mb/s)?
How long does it roughly say it should take and how long does it take to fail?


England
Google Chrome
speedtest.net says 4.83mb/s
Mine usually says ~2hours and takes just over 30 minutes to get the network error - it's always at the same point. When I was trying the 5.2 megapack, it was always after 1.4GB had been downloaded (out of 5.4GB), but now on the 5.3 pack it's at 1.3GB (out of 5.3GB).
jojobuffon
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How do u take a screenshot of your documents page,just so i can see if my faces folder is all okay,still canny get it to work or extract the new update somehow?

Many thanks in advance ,this had been driving me insane
mons
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By jojobuffon | Permalink | On 06 January 2013 - 11:59 AM
How do u take a screenshot of your documents page,just so i can see if my faces folder is all okay,still canny get it to work or extract the new update somehow?

Many thanks in advance ,this had been driving me insane

Press print screen on your keyboard, then open Paint and paste it in there. Then attach it to a post of yours in here.

Make sure that you have the whole file directory path showing and that the amount of images in the folder is clearly displayed.
Mullen18
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Press print screen on your keyboard or fn + print screen
then open paint then click paste
save and then upload to photobucket or a similar site

Screenshots inside the folder might help too
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By Mullen18 | Permalink | On 06 January 2013 - 11:09 AM
Press print screen on your keyboard or fn + print screen
then open paint then click paste
save and then upload to photobucket or a similar site

Screenshots inside the folder might help too


this might sound stupid but,ive not got a print button ive got a prtscrn button but what do u mean by FN?
Jogo Bonito
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By Rowan | Permalink | On 05 January 2013 - 13:37 PM
Hi Lawrence, welcome to the community.

Usual questions...

1) Where have you put the Megapack folder - exact location please
2) How many images do you have inside the folder?
3) Do you have config file inside that folder and if so what size is it?
4) Before extracting (using winRAR) what size was the downloaded file?


1) C:\Users\Loz\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2013\graphics\sortitoutsi\faces
2) 120,542 items
3) yes 8538 kb
4) I'm not sure, I extracted it on 13th December

Should I uninstall this and try again from scratch on 5.3?
Mullen18
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some laptops like mine have a fn (function) button and I need to press that then prt sc button for it to work
If you don't have fn then just pressing prt sc should do it
jojobuffon
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i couldnt print it,i moved the file into th eother SI floder with just the sounds? and it worked after a week of messing about an downloaded evrything it was just that LOL strange how it worked just for a wee bit last week

thaks for all the help everyone
Mullen18
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Very odd lol but as long as its working
jojobuffon
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By Mullen18 | Permalink | On 06 January 2013 - 17:04 PM
Very odd lol but as long as its working


Iam goin to pop on later and check it because it worked then disapeared last week,if its still there later that should be it,its weird because its defo in the wrong SI folders just wish i tried that first lol

With u having Hooper as ur avater have u tried a Celtic game,as wee tony watt is near enough over took him as my no.1 by January in my first season spend a lot of time working on his individual training,I've got a dilemma as ive just signed Jordan Rhodes
Mullen18
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By jojobuffon | Permalink | On 06 January 2013 - 17:23 PM
Iam goin to pop on later and check it because it worked then disapeared last week,if its still there later that should be it,its weird because its defo in the wrong SI folders just wish i tried that first lol

With u having Hooper as ur avater have u tried a Celtic game,as wee tony watt is near enough over took him as my no.1 by January in my first season spend a lot of time working on his individual training,I've got a dilemma as ive just signed Jordan Rhodes


Not had much of a chance to play FM tbh, pretty much waiting till after jan to start a long game
But I've heard Watt is better than ever, so can't wait to try turn him into the new Larsson
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By Mullen18 | Permalink | On 06 January 2013 - 18:51 PM
Not had much of a chance to play FM tbh, pretty much waiting till after jan to start a long game
But I've heard Watt is better than ever, so can't wait to try turn him into the new Larsson


His value is up to 2.4m by the start of Jan, with 3 Scotland caps,21 goals in all ,15 on league 6 in Europe
Oliver Fry
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Hi, please can you help me, im a premium member and when i download the mega pack and then try and extract it, it will stop in the middle and complain about a Corrupted PNG File, what can i do? ive tried a few times to re download the file and it still wont extract, I am using winrar using a windows 8 OS, Below is the error message that it gives me when it reaches 80% in the extracting process.

! C:\Users\Oliver\Downloads\Football Manager 2013 - Downloads\Cut Out Player Faces Megapack\sortitoutsi_megapack_5.03.rar: CRC failed in sortitoutsi\faces\1200005.png. The file is corrupt
! C:\Users\Oliver\Downloads\Football Manager 2013 - Downloads\Cut Out Player Faces Megapack\sortitoutsi_megapack_5.03.rar: Unexpected end of archive

If you have any solutions to this problem please can you drop me a message thank you
prtyrckk
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hi. i downloaded all the facepacks from 5.0 to 5.2 and i realised that luis suarez, antoine griezmann (among other players which i have yet to detect) image is not showing. i am using the default dark skin and did not alter any files. any suggestions what i can do to solve this?
Mullen18
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How many images do you have in your mp folder ?
and how big is the config ?
jkishthe1
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@Mons

Thanks for the help. Downloaded the latest version. Absolutely no problem, all files present, folder is the right size. Took an awful long time to download (over 1 full day) but has been well worth the wait.

Thank you
wacko
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I'm back again! so I now have the full 118,500 images in a faces folder but am still having problems getting it onto the game still minimum faces, I've used the extraction path as shown on the first page on this thread and tinkered with it when its not worked I.e just graphics then graphics\faces and various other combinations I feel the end must be in sight as I am getting some joy (although a small amount) so thanks for your patients as I really appreciate any help that is given.
Rowan
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wacko - please confirm:

a) The EXACT location...people SAY they put it where they are meant to, but on further inspection they often put it in the Program files route rather than My docs...
b) That you HAVE un-ticked "Use Skin Cache" and ticked "always reload on confirm" in prefs...again people SAY it.....
c) That you have the config file and all the images INSIDE a single folder and there are no other folders within this single folder
Jogo Bonito
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Hi guys, any further views on where my error has come from?

Should i try and load up 5.3 from scratch and if so do I need to delete or uninstall the previous 5.2 version somehow?

1) Where have you put the Megapack folder - exact location please
2) How many images do you have inside the folder?
3) Do you have config file inside that folder and if so what size is it?
4) Before extracting (using winRAR) what size was the downloaded file?

1) C:\Users\Loz\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2013\graphics\sortitoutsi\faces
2) 120,542 items
3) yes 8538 kb
4) I'm not sure, I extracted it on 13th December

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