Can't find players even with 250,000 players in database...thoughts?

[RonManager]

Hey Chaps,

new to the forums but have been nicking player lists and tactics for many, many years so thank you to everyone who's advice I have been happily using!

Just upgraded from FM 2012 to 2013 and have run into a bit of an odd brick wall. I love picking up the start of game freemans to try and make my budget go that bit further but for some reason 2013 is frustrating me.

I trust I am allowed to link other FM sites but I have seen variations of the following list on a number of forums etc

Football Manager 2013 Best Free Players

Where I am struggling is there are a large number of people on that list that no matter what I do I cannot get to show up in game. Beginning to wonder if they exist.

A good example is Tom De Mul, I have seen references on forums to people signing him but even when I set a custom player database up with stupid number of players 250,000 etc he doesn't appear if I simply search for his name in the search function.

Same for Spas Delev, Jose Fernando Marques and nearly everyone else on that list etc. I have so far found only two in game and I even tried loading the database with all players on the eurppean nationality or working there etc and still half of the Spanish people on that list didn't exist.

I normally start with a championship team but I tried starting with Man Utd to get access to worldwide scouting and still they aren't in the list.

Am I being a moron and I won't be offended if you say yes and point out my error at the same time

[epic terrorist]

are you ticking the option to load all the players from that nation, if so then no ideas.

[RonManager]

Yep even tried it where I loaded all the nations individually rather than Europe as a whole and checked the box for all players of that nationality in each one.

[lummy102]

Did you go for large database as well? I know it is a daft question! But hey ho trying to help out

[RonManager]

Yeah Large Database

I presume these players on that list exist though as I have seen people talk about signing some of them Tom de Mul being an example.

[RonManager]

Ok I found out the problem and it is more to do with the UI than anything else.

What I was doing was going to the manager dropdown, search then players and then once on the search for players screen I was typing in their names into the filter and nothing...

Hadn't realised that if I click on the search function on the main screen and type in their name it will then bring up the result.

So searching for a player in the search for players doesn't work but search for them generally and bingo. Ah well good news is I can start to find the good cheap players. Bad news is I am two months in and now thinking of a re-start with a much smaller database lol as 200 odd thousand players makes for a very slow pc

[Jake]

I suspect you have a filter in place on the player search screen.