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).
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By Rimmshot1973 04 October 2024 - 21:25 PM UTC 

I downloaded new faces a couple of days ago from sortitoutsi and fm slovakia ,and added them to my existing packs. Changed the xml files like i always do.  Cache unticked and reload skin ticked in preferences.  But all of my faces dont show in the game anymore.  Does anyone know how to solve this?

 

Can I see screenshots of your faces folder? Showing clearly the amount of images, amount of folders and full path.

 

 

 

By Joe5p 04 October 2024 - 23:36 PM UTC 

I have had the same issue past 24 hours out of nowhere, not sure how to sort, will let you know if I can figure it out. Use a combination of ASD, DF11, cutouts and older ones, could be my folder has too many faces now. XML all updated. 

 

You should put separate packs in separate folders, otherwise you run the risk of none of them working.

Rimmshot1973
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By mons 05 October 2024 - 06:40 AM UTC 

Can I see screenshots of your faces folder? Showing clearly the amount of images, amount of folders and full path.

 

 

 

 

You should put separate packs in separate folders, otherwise you run the risk of none of them working.

 

Total of 484566 faces in my face folder. So i have no seperate face folders. Didnt know that i had to do that,because it always worked. 

 

Neil Huntington
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Hi this as probably been asked already but I’ve not been on these forums for years and just started to play fm again.. I’ve downloaded the full mega pack for face but when I try copying it to the graphics folder it’s saying it’s going to take over a day to complete!! Surely not I’ve got a brand new gaming laptop one of the Acer nitro 5 version I’m sure it never use to take that long 

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By Rimmshot1973 05 October 2024 - 08:26 AM UTC 

Total of 484566 faces in my face folder. So i have no seperate face folders. Didnt know that i had to do that,because it always worked. 

 

Can I have the screenshot I asked for please? That helps me start to identify the potential issue.

 

 

By Neil Huntington 05 October 2024 - 09:25 AM UTC 

Hi this as probably been asked already but I’ve not been on these forums for years and just started to play fm again.. I’ve downloaded the full mega pack for face but when I try copying it to the graphics folder it’s saying it’s going to take over a day to complete!! Surely not I’ve got a brand new gaming laptop one of the Acer nitro 5 version I’m sure it never use to take that long 

 

This is dealt with in the FAQ at the top of this thread:

 

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.

Neil Huntington
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By mons 05 October 2024 - 11:07 AM UTC 

Can I have the screenshot I asked for please? That helps me start to identify the potential issue.

 

 

 

This is dealt with in the FAQ at the top of this thread:

 

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.

 

I did read that to be fair it’s been copying a hour now and still hasn’t done 1% like I say it’s a brand new laptop with good specs as well

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By mons 05 October 2024 - 11:07 AM UTC 

Can I have the screenshot I asked for please? That helps me start to identify the potential issue.

 

 

 

This is dealt with in the FAQ at the top of this thread:

 

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.

 

 

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By Rimmshot1973 05 October 2024 - 13:21 PM UTC 

 

 

It's installed in the right folder, so that's not the issue. However, it's got about 6,000 more images than the megapack actually has. Any idea why they could be?

 

Can you also attach the file titled config.xml contained in that folder?

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By mons 05 October 2024 - 13:32 PM UTC 

It's installed in the right folder, so that's not the issue. However, it's got about 6,000 more images than the megapack actually has. Any idea why they could be?

 

Can you also attach the file titled config.xml contained in that folder?

 

I got also face pictures from fm  slovakia in the same folder,that explains the amount.  It worked everytime,until now. 

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By Rimmshot1973 05 October 2024 - 18:34 PM UTC 
 

 

You shouldn't have the DF11 files in the same folder but in a separate one to avoid precisely this kind of situation. You generated a different config file and somehow mucked it. Without knowing what you did, I can't tell, sorry.

 

Use the config file from the most recent update pack in the faces folder, and I suppose it'll work, and don't mix and match facepack styles in the same folder.

Joe5p
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Surely using FMXML or similar would negate any potential issues. I have had separate folders for years, with some packs mixed with others within folders, but the logic in terms of how FMXML works would seem to suggest that the XML it generates should work. 

 

I think the issue might come when your rename existing folders from what I can figure out

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By Joe5p 05 October 2024 - 19:09 PM UTC 

Surely using FMXML or similar would negate any potential issues. I have had separate folders for years, with some packs mixed with others within folders, but the logic in terms of how FMXML works would seem to suggest that the XML it generates should work. 

 

I think the issue might come when your rename existing folders from what I can figure out

 

In theory, yes it should negate the issues. In practice, it's exactly what created it in this case, however.

 

The megapack works fine, but it's clearly something both users have done (maybe the same thing, maybe not) which has stopped it from working probably. Trust me, you'd be surprised how often it happens that the megapack isn't working because it's something the user's changed which had unintended consequences.

 

Which is why I suggested keeping everything separate, thus avoiding this kind of issue arising.

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By mons 05 October 2024 - 19:20 PM UTC 

In theory, yes it should negate the issues. In practice, it's exactly what created it in this case, however.

 

The megapack works fine, but it's clearly something both users have done (maybe the same thing, maybe not) which has stopped it from working probably. Trust me, you'd be surprised how often it happens that the megapack isn't working because it's something the user's changed which had unintended consequences.

 

Which is why I suggested keeping everything separate, thus avoiding this kind of issue arising.

Makes sense mate, it definitely isn't a pack issues, I should have clarified that. There will be a cache file held somewhere that needs cleared I think, just trial and error to try to find it

 

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By Joe5p 05 October 2024 - 19:21 PM UTC 

Makes sense mate, it definitely isn't a pack issues, I should have clarified that. There will be a cache file held somewhere that needs cleared I think, just trial and error to try to find it

 

Or a rogue or empty config file, possibly.

Neil Huntington
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I’m all sorted now it seems 7-zip wasn’t extracting them properly switch to Winrar and now everything works perfectly 

Omar Badr
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When I download the facepack changes files the faces doesn’t load ingame. Is there a solution to this?

mons
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By Omar Badr 11 October 2024 - 17:48 PM UTC 

When I download the facepack changes files the faces doesn’t load ingame. Is there a solution to this?

 

Are you saying that the old face still shows?

 

Make sure your preferences look like this:

 

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/ddxsJBZ1AGXdLpBKoLPUMRzid79j9iur1rCL2yIN.png

 

If that is the case and it's still not working, can I see screenshots of your faces folder, showing clearly the full path and the amount of images contained within it?

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By Neil Huntington 06 October 2024 - 12:02 PM UTC 

I’m all sorted now it seems 7-zip wasn’t extracting them properly switch to Winrar and now everything works perfectly 

 

Just to say thanks for this Neil, I encountered the same issue and followed your steps with WinRar and it's fixed it.

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By mons 05 October 2024 - 18:39 PM UTC 

You shouldn't have the DF11 files in the same folder but in a separate one to avoid precisely this kind of situation. You generated a different config file and somehow mucked it. Without knowing what you did, I can't tell, sorry.

 

Use the config file from the most recent update pack in the faces folder, and I suppose it'll work, and don't mix and match facepack styles in the same folder.

 

I downloaded everything again,and made seperate folders. 1 for cut out faces and 1 for df11 faces. But seems that the df11 faces dont work anyomore. The cut out faces are good again. But dont know what is wrong with the df11 faces now. 

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By Rimmshot1973 17 October 2024 - 09:11 AM UTC 

I downloaded everything again,and made seperate folders. 1 for cut out faces and 1 for df11 faces. But seems that the df11 faces dont work anyomore. The cut out faces are good again. But dont know what is wrong with the df11 faces now. 

 

The config file used in the DF11 folder should be different to the one in the faces folder. Is this the case?

ZORKY9
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hi, I downloaded the cut out faces, the entire Austrian and Italian league is without faces, and in all the teams somewhere there are also no faces, why is that?

Andrew Ryan
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Before i post my question i would like to apologies if i have posted this in the wrong place. I wonder  if anyone can tell me how i find this default face in football manager 24 i have looked everywhere i want to change it I want to say thank you in advance for any help I might receive 

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By ZORKY9 19 October 2024 - 20:53 PM UTC 

hi, I downloaded the cut out faces, the entire Austrian and Italian league is without faces, and in all the teams somewhere there are also no faces, why is that?

 

You must not have installed it correctly, since both the Austrian and Italian leagues have a considerable amount of images in the megapack. In order for us to understand what you did wrong, can you please upload screenshots of your megapack folder, showing clearly the full path it’s located in as well as how many images are in that folder?

 

 

 

By Andrew Ryan 20 October 2024 - 06:02 AM UTC 

Before i post my question i would like to apologies if i have posted this in the wrong place. I wonder  if anyone can tell me how i find this default face in football manager 24 i have looked everywhere i want to change it I want to say thank you in advance for any help I might receive 

 

You can download it from here.

Andrew Ryan
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Oh my goodness thank you so much i did have them but somehow managed to delete the folder it as been driving me crazy  god bless

981
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who idea was to change all the free mirror links? the new site is fkng dogsh*t
Andrew Ryan
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Hi can anyone help earlier this week a kind person sent me a default face pack which i had lost sadly I have the same problem a gain could anyone guide me to find these 

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By Andrew Ryan 22 October 2024 - 04:45 AM UTC 

Hi can anyone help earlier this week a kind person sent me a default face pack which i had lost sadly I have the same problem a gain could anyone guide me to find these 

 

I'm not sure what the question here is. Can you try and explain a bit more exactly what you're looking for please?

Andrew Ryan
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Yes so sorry I am looking for this face pack but do not know the name 

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By Andrew Ryan 23 October 2024 - 05:07 AM UTC 

Yes so sorry I am looking for this face pack but do not know the name 

 

Those are the faces which the game generates for newgens, i.e. those created by the game. They're not a pack you can download.

jkishthe1
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I've just bouight a new PC (was intneded to ugrade to meet FM25 specs) so I'm starting fresh with 24. Although I backed up the old .rar files I tried to download the complete pack from scratch burt it keeps failing. Is there a point furter down the list where I can download individual packs without missing anything?

 

Thanks

mons
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By jkishthe1 23 October 2024 - 21:39 PM UTC 

I've just bouight a new PC (was intneded to ugrade to meet FM25 specs) so I'm starting fresh with 24. Although I backed up the old .rar files I tried to download the complete pack from scratch burt it keeps failing. Is there a point furter down the list where I can download individual packs without missing anything?

 

Thanks

 

Going by your download history, it seems you've downloaded the 2024.13 megapack a few hours ago, so hopefully the below is no longer needed.

 

Use Google Chrome to download it, because it allows the resumption of interrupted downloads.

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