Real Ad Boards For Football Manager 2010

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by Johnny Karp 14 November 2009 17 Comments

I have to say that the match engine experience in Football Manager 2010 is very good, much better than in the previous version. But still, a touch of more realism could always help. That’s why I decided to install this ads pack in my game, here is how it looks:

The pack was created by Frank Hovis and it includes realistic and specific ad boards for a few European leagues (England has all the leagues covered) and for the major competitions like the Europa League and the Champions League.

How to install

First you have to download the two .zip files that I uploaded:

- ads.zip

- ads2.zip

After you download those extract ads.zip to My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2010 and ads2.zip to My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2010\graphics (if there is no “graphics” folder create one yourselves). After extracting please rename the “ads2″ folder to “ads”.

In your Football Manager 2010 game preferences un-tick “Skin Cache” and tick “Always Reload Skin on Confirm”. Then click “confirm” and the ad boards should show in all their splendor.

17 Comments »

Dave said:

Hey johnnyu

how big is the ads2 file supposed to be?

Downloaded twice and the size is 34,402 KB but wont unzip, i get unexpected end of archive

# 16 November 2009 at 19:48

JohnnyKarp (author) said:

Dave, the file is around 43.69 MB, I’m downloading it now to see if it works. I’ll let you know.

# 16 November 2009 at 21:39

Dave said:

Cheers mate

# 16 November 2009 at 21:42

JohnnyKarp (author) said:

Dave, I just finished downloading and extracting the file, it works just fine… I uploaded it to another server for you, try this link.

# 16 November 2009 at 21:57

Dave said:

Cheers mate, managed to download and unzip all ok but (always a but) after copying the ads folder to the FM2010 dir and the ads2 (renamed to ads) to the graphics folder I only get a default “Sports Interactive” ad boards during the game all round the pitch. Dont suppose you have come across this have you?
Have done the reload skin thing as added the facepack which works fine.

Cheers

# 23 November 2009 at 13:17

Dave said:

oops never mind i’m a tit lol

got it working

# 23 November 2009 at 13:39

JohnnyKarp (author) said:

Cheers mate, I’m happy it’s working.

# 23 November 2009 at 13:52

faiz said:

hello..
i’m try..but its not working..same ads..:(
what can i do now..?

# 21 December 2009 at 09:27

Johnny Karp (author) said:

@faiz
I don’t know what to tell you, if you followed the instructions it should work.

# 21 December 2009 at 13:16

faiz said:

i follow the instruction..
copy the file ads to My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2010..in ads folder have 2 files right??
and ads2 to My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2010\graphics and rename it to ads..

un-tick “Skin Cache” and tick “Always Reload Skin on Confirm”.

i use skin..or maybe it effect??

# 24 December 2009 at 04:16

Johnny Karp (author) said:

Faiz, try moving the “ads2″ thing to graphics/pictures instead of graphics, maybe that will work.

# 24 December 2009 at 10:47