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.
- 463,302
- 2024.07 - Released on 15 Apr 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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Chevalier
Many thanks mons. Unfortunately your response does not solve the problem. In Windows 11, there are three locations on the C drive that contain folders called “Documents”: -
In addition to these, there are several locations on the C drive with folders called “My Documents”. Moreover, none of the above locations contains a file called Sports Interactive to help me find the correct place. Of course, I could try each location in turn but the process takes many hours so it would be helpful if you were able to tell me where to install the players images?
Chevalier
I decided to solve the problem by testing with only one player image that was not present in the game. This will be much faster. I placed the image in all potential locations in turn until I found the location where the image appeared in the game. I then loaded all images into that location and the problem is now solved. Using Windows 11, the correct location is C:\Users\Public\Documents\Sports Interactive.
I hope this is helpful.
mons
Let's tackle this another way. When you save a career, where does it go? You can easily find this by using the load career button (or whatever its name is) from the game's main menu. You can check the full path in that way. That is your user data folder, and that is where your graphics should go.
If that still doesn't work, send me a private message and we can use TeamViewer so I can find it for you.
mons
Good to see you got there 👍
M0ntagu3
Hi guys,
First time poster. Just downloaded the Megapack for the first time. Great work, really improves the FM experience.
I noticed a number of EFL players have reverted to their FM 2021 pictures. Just wondering if future update packs will update these pictures to the more recent photos found on FM22.
Thanks again!
mons
Here is a very old but nonetheless still valid explanation as to why what you're asking for is not necessarily as easy as you might think…
mons
Here's a link to the 9.00 torrent pack: https://sortitoutsi.net/media/47871/torrent 😉
tfguenther
Hello everybody,
I'm currently trying to download the megapack via depositfiles. It worked for the first 12 files, but unfortunately Part13 seems to be gone. At least the link doesn't function anymore. Is this a known issue?
Thanks in advance!
mons
You should be able to download the missing part from the other mirror site.
It's more practical if you download the torrent file, which is a single file containing everything.
Benzema Nueve
Hey guys, I have the full pack installed and it seems like every face is showing in game but I have noticed that 1 face is not even though it is present in the pack. Please let me know if you have any idea as to why that might be the case.
All the best!!
mons
It would help if you told us which face it is so that we can check…
Benzema Nueve
The player in question is Jean Onana. His ID is 83313842.
mons
I'll have to check when I'm home. Will get back to you on this later 👍
JooJoo
hello friends, i can only use the depositfiles links, and part 13 seems to be removed by the host.
JamesDavies10
Hi guys, sorry if this has been covered before - I downloaded the full face pack for FM20, but didn't play FM21. Now on FM22, should I be downloading the 25 or so individual updates since my last download? Or am I better off just starting afresh and downloading the full FM22 pack?
There's loads of these going back to 12.09. I'm assuming the file size is smaller so even though there's a lot of update packs it'd still be quicker than starting again, but would like to double check before spending hours going through them all, cheers!
mons
Read this.
TimTomTimTom
Amazing! 🙂 Nobody's seeding atm, but maybe I only need a little more patience.
mons
You could download all the update packs you've missed out one-by-one, but it'll probably be easier to just download the 2022 torrent and top it up with the 2022.01 update pack.
But yes, if you don't want to go down that road, you'll need to download the 20+ update packs which were released since you last updated your files.
Tbph, I'd be surprised if anybody is still seeding such an old file for such a niche project, but you can live in hope…
pablo cruise
I keep getting a network error when downloading this face pack via the premium member download link.
I am using chrome and the download will not resume.
I have downloaded everything else today without any issues. I cannot seem to get this to complete. Is this due to the servers being smashed on release day?
mons
It could very well be the case, yeah. Try using it on Chrome in incognito mode, been known to help sometimes…
George Still
Is there a way to use (e.g. via shortcut) the same megapack from 2021 with 2022 rather than have the data stored twice?
mons
Sure, just change the user data folder to point to the same folder. It's what I do every year in fact.
George Still
I'm trying it out on gamepass and that option seems to be “hidden”
That or I'm being ultra-blind.
mons
The size of that screen :0
It might well be a restriction that Gamepass has…
George Still
Yeah. It's nice on a 4k screen! 😁
Slin91
If I clickon the donload latest changes for 2022.00 I can only download the complete megapack. Is there a download link to a pack with just the changes to 13.15? I don't want to download the whole pack again. For 2022.01 it works just fine.
mons
I can only imagine!
As stated by SI themselves,
That's not how it's supposed to work, perhaps it's just displaying incorrectly for now.
Can you post a screenshot of the page you're referring to please? So that we can be sure what needs to be fixed.
George Still
Ok, so something to add to the how to install section with a limitation on game pass.
I guess I'd need to move them over then for a duplication of the data, or buy the steam / epic version.
Slin91
This is where I think the update pack should show up:
And this is the page I land on:
mons
Gotcha, thanks for that. I'll tag @Footygamer so that he's aware that the link to the 22.00 update pack is showing for the full pack instead. I'm sure he'll be able to fix it soon 👍