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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  • 2024.07 - Released on 15 Apr 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).
Mike R
10 years ago
9 years ago
4
Thanks for your help...

Have attached my folder structure - will this work?

I don't have a folder named megapack - just put them in the graphics one that I created
mons
17 years ago
7 hours ago
85,966
Just put the config inside the faces folder and you should be fine

FYI, as long as the folder containing the images is inside the graphics folder, the actual name is irrelevant

Don't forget to change the in-game preferences as well.
Mike R
10 years ago
9 years ago
4
Just put the config inside the faces folder and you should be fine

FYI, as long as the folder containing the images is inside the graphics folder, the actual name is irrelevant

Don't forget to change the in-game preferences as well.


Cool, will try that - thought the name didn't matter, but I'm very IT illiterate and wanted to check lol
Samirah
15 years ago
2 days ago
108
I am unable to get past a certain point when downloading the megapack. Also, I have been experiencing VERY slow downloads since I went ahead and became a premium member. Which I don't understand.
mons
17 years ago
7 hours ago
85,966
We migrated servers earlier this week and there seems to be some teething issues at present. Please bear with us while we clear them up. If you are still unable to fully download these files in a day or two, then do let us know...
Blockbuster4
10 years ago
5 months ago
2
Hi,

I got problems with the pack, done everything like told, Sports Interactive - Football Manager 14 - graphics - faces (got 137.805 files in the folder )
then I clear the cache ingame and reload skin.
No changes, no images of the players. I installed the game just today, version 14.2
Gadssen
14 years ago
5 years ago
7
We migrated servers earlier this week and there seems to be some teething issues at present. Please bear with us while we clear them up. If you are still unable to fully download these files in a day or two, then do let us know...


Not sure it was just me or there are more people facing the same problem. I'm trying to download the complete facepack, but it always ended in "server error". It happened few times that I downloaded until 3X% and it just displayed "server error" and stopped. I'm using firefox with download manager add-on, but the download can't be resumed, and made me have to start all over again and again, and of course, it never get completed...
chokosc
14 years ago
3 weeks ago
1,041
Some player's faces don't show. How do I fix that?
mons
17 years ago
7 hours ago
85,966
Hi,

I got problems with the pack, done everything like told, Sports Interactive - Football Manager 14 - graphics - faces (got 137.805 files in the folder )
then I clear the cache ingame and reload skin.
No changes, no images of the players. I installed the game just today, version 14.2

Can you confirm that it's DOCUMENTS > Sports Interactive > etc etc?

Secondly, do you have a config file in the megapack folder?

Thirdly, it's not a case of clearing the cache only, but also unticking use caching and ticking always reload skin on confirm.
mons
17 years ago
7 hours ago
85,966
Not sure it was just me or there are more people facing the same problem. I'm trying to download the complete facepack, but it always ended in "server error". It happened few times that I downloaded until 3X% and it just displayed "server error" and stopped. I'm using firefox with download manager add-on, but the download can't be resumed, and made me have to start all over again and again, and of course, it never get completed...

As explained here, the server has had some work done on it earlier this evening so you might noticed improvement speed, performance and connection...



Some player's faces don't show. How do I fix that?

That's a bit like going to the mechanic and saying that your car doesn't work and expecting him to know what's wrong just like that Help me help you by giving a bit more details...

Whose faces in particular are not working?
How many images in all do you have in your megapack folder?
Are your preferences set up as indicated in the screenshot in this thread's opening post?
NiallTTC
12 years ago
9 years ago
11
Signed up for the Premium membership the other day and having immense trouble trying to take the 6.2 face pack file down (6.65 Gb). That's 5 attempts now and every time it times out at between 500mb and 3gb. I manage a speedtest download speed of 18 Mbps and seem to only get about 128 Kbps when downloading from here.

Any ideas?
Danton
11 years ago
10 years ago
1
I'm having this same problem, no idea how to fix it yet...
NiallTTC
12 years ago
9 years ago
11
Strangely it's now downloading at 1.5Mbs. Fingers crossed.
NiallTTC
12 years ago
9 years ago
11
Nope. Timed out again after 1GB.
NiallTTC
12 years ago
9 years ago
11
Can't get beyond about 1GB of the download without it timing out and losing the connection to the server. Downloading at about 1.5Mbps when it is downloading though. Attempted this about 10 times now, same every time.
Yamit
11 years ago
5 months ago
1
Premium
I seem to be timing out as well. Always around 1gb.
hena22
12 years ago
2 months ago
1
Premium
Same problem here. Getting frustrated..
chokosc
14 years ago
3 weeks ago
1,041
Whose faces in particular are not working?
How many images in all do you have in your megapack folder?
Are your preferences set up as indicated in the screenshot in this thread's opening post?


I have 141,191 pictures in the megapack folder. It basically doesn't show anyone, but it does show a selected few, mostly Everton players, Moyes and I don't know who else. I have cleared the cache and put everything as shown...

This is where it is all placed: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014\graphics\faces\MEGAPACK 6.0

I don't understand why this doesn't work. It is really weird! Any ideas what I should do to ix it?

I have a config file as well which is what was my problem last year at one point.
mons
17 years ago
7 hours ago
85,966
We apologise to all those whose download of the megapack is getting interrupted. Earlier this week, we migrated to new servers with the intention of ensuring a quicker and more stable download but there have been some gremlins since then. Could you kindly post in this thread and report your issue so that Rob, our site owner and admin, can check the problem...

I have 141,191 pictures in the megapack folder. It basically doesn't show anyone, but it does show a selected few, mostly Everton players, Moyes and I don't know who else. I have cleared the cache and put everything as shown...

This is where it is all placed: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014\graphics\faces\MEGAPACK 6.0

I don't understand why this doesn't work. It is really weird! Any ideas what I should do to ix it?

I have a config file as well which is what was my problem last year at one point.

How large is your config file? Do you have all the images in one folder and one folder only?

Can you confirm that the use caching in the preferences is unticked?

P.S. You've got around an extra 2k images, not sure where you got them from
chokosc
14 years ago
3 weeks ago
1,041
We apologise to all those whose download of the megapack is getting interrupted. Earlier this week, we migrated to new servers with the intention of ensuring a quicker and more stable download but there have been some gremlins since then. Could you kindly post in this thread and report your issue so that Rob, our site owner and admin, can check the problem...

How large is your config file? Do you have all the images in one folder and one folder only?

Can you confirm that the use caching in the preferences is unticked?

P.S. You've got around an extra 2k images, not sure where you got them from


The only thing ticked is the center one and that's Reload skin... Config is 9786KB and it is all in the same folder. I'll just download it again I guess
Alexander Johnson
10 years ago
9 years ago
4
Hi. I have just paid for premium content via paypal last night and whenever i try to d/load the megapack after about 2gigs approx it stops,telling me there is an unexpected error i have installed zip fix and this does not even fix it.
Could you help me as i am very frustrated and if i cant get the content i paid premium membership for then could i have a refund and i will do without
Kind regards
mons
17 years ago
7 hours ago
85,966
As per 2 posts above, we apologise to all those whose download of the megapack is getting interrupted. Earlier this week, we migrated to new servers with the intention of ensuring a quicker and more stable download but there have been some gremlins since then, which we hope to overcome in the next days. Could you kindly post in this thread and report your issue so that Rob, our site owner and admin, can check the problem...
Box Of Frogs
11 years ago
9 years ago
6
Same for me too. Paid for premium membership but unable to get past 1Gb of the megabuck before I get an error - The requested URL was not found on this server.

Tried four or five times now.

Thanks
SoopSandwich
15 years ago
5 months ago
19
I have the premium subscription and have tried downloading the whole file but it always stops after about 1GB. Is there a link to download the file in parts for premium users. I would rather download it directly from SORTITOUTSI than the mirrors because my computer gives me a virus, spyware alert when I tried it from them.

Thanks
mons
17 years ago
7 hours ago
85,966
Please read the prior posts...
Footygamer
17 years ago
6 minutes ago
75,452
Hey guys I am looking into this, just made a change and am testing it now, anyone reading this who has had a SUCCESSFUL download please post, as far as i'm concerned it's not working for anyone right now and it would be useful to know if it is infact working for some people.

If you are still having problems, please don't continue to post in here, I am aware of the problem and will post an announcement in the next few hours when I believe the problem has been fixed

As always apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Richard Shaw
10 years ago
1 month ago
2
Premium
Hey guys I am looking into this, just made a change and am testing it now, anyone reading this who has had a SUCCESSFUL download please post, as far as i'm concerned it's not working for anyone right now and it would be useful to know if it is infact working for some people.

If you are still having problems, please don't continue to post in here, I am aware of the problem and will post an announcement in the next few hours when I believe the problem has been fixed

As always apologies for any inconvenience caused.


Hi Rob,

I have just tried from two different locations and different browsers, both stop at about 1gb. So the problem is still there and is not browser specific.

Richard
Lembo
16 years ago
2 months ago
1
Premium
Hi Rob,
I've finally just managed to download a logo's megapack which also kept failing on me, i'm going to try the facepack again now.
Cheers.
Blockbuster4
10 years ago
5 months ago
2
thx I deleted everything, did everything like before but now it works, don't know why, but I'm happy now.
Good work, keep it up !
Davde
10 years ago
4 years ago
11
I recently bought a new laptop and wanted to re-download the images. When I originally downloaded them on my old laptop I had no problems at all. I tried to get them from the website but the download kept crashing when it reached 1gb. I then copied the original file from my old laptop to new, extracted it, and did all the correct preferences etc and it still doesn't work.

I also have 2 sports interactive folders as well for some reason if that makes any difference.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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