Cut-Out Player Faces Megapack
Our Cut-Out Faces Megapack is the biggest collection of Football Manager Player Faces available. All players are available in the default cut-out style. When you download our Cut-Out Faces Megapack, you'll receive over 480,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
- 482,917
- 2025.01 - Released on 04 Dec 2024
Installation Instructions
1. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using Steam on Windows?
Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. Although it is for an older version of FM, the steps are still the same. You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.
This is what the MP folder should look like for the respective version of FM you're using:
Anything beyond the blue line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
2. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using a Mac OS?
From FM20 onwards, there's been a substantial change to how Mac FM documents are stored. Previously the files would automatically go in the Documents folder here:
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
Now the files will instead appear in the following location:
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:
Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 202x -> graphics’ (create the last folder if necessary
Anything beyond this path line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
3. I don’t want to have the megapack in the default user data folder – can I place it elsewhere and how would I do so?
You need to change your user data location. Simple steps on how to do so can be found here.
The above step does not apply if you’re playing on Gamepass, in which case the user data location has to be the default one (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)
It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.
4. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using Gamepass?
If you're using Gamepass, then you have to use the default user data folder - point 4 above does not and can not apply to you.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you're not a premium member, it is recommended that you download the base megapack via torrent by going to our cut-out megapack download page. After which, you should then download all the update packs released to date and apply them chronologically.
If you're a premium member, just download the most recent complete pack.
If you already have a version of our Cut-Out Faces Megapack installed, then click "Download Latest Changes" and you'll be presented with a list of all the updates we've released since you've last downloaded a file. Simply download any you might have missed, starting with the oldest.
This is what the MP folder should look like:
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
Now the files will instead appear in the following location:
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:
Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 202x’
Anything beyond the blue line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
The above step does not apply if you’re playing on Gamepass, in which case the user data location has to be the default one (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)
It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.
Torrent files need a torrent client to be downloaded. I personally use µTorrent but other common clients are BitTorrent, Vuze and Deluge. For those using torrents for the first time, here is a general walk-through on how to download torrents and a specific guide for µTorrent.
Be aware that it will take a substantial amount of time to download the file due to its sheer size and that other people depend on you hosting the file to get it so please leave your torrent client on after you have fully downloaded it. The etiquette is generally accepted to be to upload as much as you download, although this might not always be possible. The older the torrent file, the less likely it is that there will still be users seeding it.
If done correctly, you should be asked if you want to overwrite files – accept. You should have one folder for faces and another folder for iconfaces, and no sub-folder whatsoever in them.
These steps are to be repeated for every update pack downloaded, and they are to be installed chronologically.
Secondly, for files as large as this, the calculation of the extraction time will be wildly incorrect at the start. After a while, it'll show a more realistic timeframe, which shouldn't be more than an hour or two if you have a good setup and few programs running at the same time.
Try using Google Chrome in incognito mode (or the equivalent mode for other browsers) and you should be able to resume the download from the point it was interrupted, if that happens.
The likelihood is that you've put the iconfaces in the faces folder, or used the wrong config file for each folder. As a result, the smaller images (in 25x18) are being upscaled to be displayed in the person's profile, hence the blurring. Re-install the update pack again, making sure you put the contents of each folder in the right place.
Alternatively, you can download fmXML and generate a config yourself. There's a video on YouTube on how to use it but it's really easy and the instructions are quite straight-forward.
To get them to show, you should individually download the cut-out faces that you want from here (or use the UID to find them in your existing facepack if you don't use the cut-out megapack), put them in a separate folder to your existing facepack and create a config file just for them using the method outlined in here (which works for all facepack styles, not just the cut-out megapack).
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georgerl
mons
Torrents automatically pick up where they'd been left off afaik
georgerl
Awesome, thanks.
montrosefc
When trying to download from the mirrors, both link to a download file which ends with the extension .rar.exe
Is this normal?
Mt virus scanner doesn't like it and I certainly won't double click on an exe file
Any idea what is happening?
mons
BumPincher
mons
Read this.
aurelol38
SamJChadwick
mons
Keep in mind that whenever you add update packs, you're supposed to copy the contents of the download file and not the folder itself. You should therefore, when all is said and done, have one folder (and one folder only) with all the images in it + the config file, and NOT separate folders with each update pack contained within.
Thor Hushovd
mons
The file won't extract unless you have all the parts downloaded. You can always download the torrent file if you can't wait...
vssforever
I don't know if it is already writen somewhere here on forum - if i have complete previous pack (version 6 for fm2014 with all updates), i need only 7.0-7.2 updates to make it actual, or i'm supposed to download new version of megapack 7.0?
Thank you.
mons
If you are sure you have version and all the updates, then you only need to download 7.0 to 7.2 to be up-to-date
Daniel Healy
Cheers
mons
That's strange - are you sure the extension is pdf? Or do you have your extensions set up in a manner in which rar files are opened with Adobe PDF Reader?
If you haven't already, please download winrar and use it to extract the file you've downloaded. If that still doesn't work, I'd appreciate having a screenshot of the properties of the file you've downloaded so I can see what's wrong with it.
jedimaster
Like said vssforever, I need seeders too.
Unfortunately, I don't have any previous packages to download the v7.2 one by one.
Could you help please ?
Many thanks.
Kalis44
Kalis44
@mons
Kalis44
Any help?
mons
Kalis44
The file I've downloaded is 7.53gb
mons
Kalis44
Fixed it. I believe the the issue is that winzip cannot support OS X Yosemite. Apples App store have an application called the Unarchiver, there's also a legacy version which may work better, both are free. If anyone else had an issue like me please pass this on.
also no idea why it comes up on my file as 7.53 but i did the direct download rather than torrent
mons
MrBreezy18
I am obviously doing something very simple, wrong but I cannot seem to extract the Cut Out Player Pics mega pack into the correct folder?
When I download the file, I am greeted with 3 files. See below:
1) - Faces
2) - Visit Sortitout (hyperlink)
3 - Readme file
So i highlight the Faces folder and extract to the following - see attached image.
When i pressed OK, it didn't ask me if OK to overwrite previous etc. Then when fully extracted, I load FM and go to the preferences to tick and untick the correct options. Still, nothing!
I am generally very computer literate so please, no one to tell me how useless i am! Thanks for your help guys.
The Kraken
is there a fix for this ???
Mrpie86
I'm having trouble with the mega pack 7.0
i have downloaded it complete. i have 154,000 ish images but not all images are showing in game.
i had the mega pack 5 previously and work fine but i wanted more player faces hence why i deleted 5.0 and downloaded 7.0.
I have a mac and extracted the file to fm15/graphics/faces. i the got the update packs 7.0/7.1/7.2 and dragged the files into the mega pack 7.0 (in order) and replaced the old files.
i then load up the images on fm but only a few are there?? e.g mata and de gea at utd have there pics but clyne and ward prowse at southampton don't.
i have been on the editor and found the unique id, then scrolled through the mega pack and the missing images are there, just not in the game.
does any know a fix for this please??
thanks in advance
mons
Can you please confirm, ideally with a screenshot, that the only contents of the faces folder is 154,000+ images and a config.xml file?
Have you also changed the in-game preferences as per the screenshot in the OP please?
Are you sure you haven't downloaded the icons megapack by mistake? If not, could you please upload screenshots and/or give us UIDs of players whose cutout is blurry?
Can you confirm that all 154,000+ images are in one folder and that there are no other folders within the main megapack folder? Perhaps you could upload a screenshot to confirm...
Also, are the in-game preferences set up as per the screenshot in the OP please?
eman_resu
EDIT: Exact error message: "The selected items can't all be put into the same location, because at least one of them name '43141847.png' is busy."