Help with installing addons

Hi,

There are many interesting patches- addons etc on this site OK. The trouble is, when you're not a teen nor good with computers, like me, would someone care to create a sticky that covers all the possible types explaining in 'easy' language just how to do it. And if there could be ramifications, what they would be.

That would really help older players like me. If they are on the site already, please direct me to them.

Thanks people,

britpol

Hello, Britpol. Could you mention/link us to some of the patches that you have downloaded?

Facepacks
Cut and paste the folder "graphics" to:
Win Vista/Windows 7: C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\
Win 2000/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\
Win 98/ME: C:\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\
Mac OS X: /Users/<username>/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2012/
If you already have a folder "graphics" it might ask you to overwrite it, select yes You won't be losing any of your existing graphics.

Kits
Copy those folders to:
Win Vista/Windows 7: C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\graphics\kits\
Win 2000/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\graphics\kits\
Win 98/ME: C:\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\graphics\kits\
Mac OS X: /Users/<username>/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2012/graphics/kits/

Stadium Backgrounds
Win Vista/Windows 7: C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\graphics
Win 2000/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\graphics
Win 98/ME: C:\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\graphics
Mac OS X: /Users/<username>/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2012/graphics

Skins
Win Vista/7: C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\skins
Win XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\skins
Mac OS X: /Users/<username>/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2012/skins
Applying the Skin
To select the skin in game you will need to:
load the game, and go into the preferences -> Display and Sound menu
untick ‘Use Skin Cache’ and tick ‘Always Reload Skin On Confirm’ then select confirm and
select the skin from the drop down menu, select confirm again and your new skin should now display. (Once the skin is loaded you can turn the skin cache back on and untick the Always Reload button.)

Logo Pack
After the download just extract the file to the following file: "Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\graphics"

P.S.
Basically, for any addition in the graphic section, you should check if 'Use Skin Cache' is unticked and 'Always Reload Skin' is ticked. If this is not what you are looking for and instead, looking to put in custom patches, I'll add it in the next post.
I have written nothing new. Just copied everything from http://www.fmscout.com/c-files12.html

Akash thank you,

I've tried to install

FM 2012 Facepacks (56)
FM 2012 Team Kits (9)
FM12 Stadium Backgrounds thanks
minneapolisJon's FM12 Backgrounds
plus stadiums from all over the world.

Any help would be nice.

britpol