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#873444 Troubleshooting Football Manager Data Update Installation - How to install Football Manager Databases
YourMotherWhoWantsYouToCall
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10 Mar 2026 15:00:09
By M.C 10 March 2026 - 14:10 PM UTC 

It is almost certainly the ‘Player History’ file that is causing this behaviour for you - as it does for all others.

 

It's not a bug - it is just a symptom/consequence of that file having a lot of database changes in it (over 3,000,000).

 

It is known to significantly slow down the game creation process, whilst all of these changes are processed. If you choose to enable this file, there is a requirement to tolerate the one-time slow game creation process. The good news is that, once the game is loaded, loading the save and the actual gameplay is no slower.

 

The alternative is to simply disable this file. However, you will then not have the updated player histories it introduces.

 

Brilliant, thanks. That's exactly the information I was after. The player history file wasn't present the last time I played FM24 and I must have just misinterpretated my couple of trial setups in thinking it was the nation files.

#873423 Troubleshooting Football Manager Data Update Installation - How to install Football Manager Databases
YourMotherWhoWantsYouToCall
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10 Mar 2026 13:46:06

Hi all

The (free) version of the FM24 data update has drastically slowed down the game setup process. I haven't played for a few months but this was not present last time using these sortitoutsi update files. I can't isolate a particular culprit. I have all the files including the optional player histories avalable for selection but no other editor data (fmf) additions. This slow down is isolated to these additions specifically (it seems); the nation files ie: “sortitoutsi.net FM24 Data Update - Netherlands (League).fmf” etc. Not the new players, Europe, Europe history, remove bans/injuries, or aformentioned player histories (etc) files.
All I'm querying is if theres a reason there has been such a large change in how long it's taking to create the database? And also load to the game setup page (add leagues and change database size etc).

Thanks