Removing Visual Spam

UPDATE: There were a couple of minor spelling mistakes in this blog which if copied may have stopped it working. These were spotted by Jenna, so thanks for that, I have now updated the blog and it will work correctly. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Are you sick of annoying visuals that ruin your gameplay in STO? Are you tired of being unable to see the target because of the ridiculous plasma storm or other gigantic and blinding effects like the Beacon of Kahless? Yeah, me too. Well, now we have a solution to end all that.

dynFxExcludeFX

This code above will exclude visual effects in the game, you will not see your effects nor will you see anyone else's effects. The effects to exclude have to be added to a bind file which I will explain below. There is a list of all these effects but it's in a bit of a messy format, however, you can usually work out what it should be, I mean I did it so how hard could it be?

Here is the list which I am putting on our Google drive. LIST

Ok here are the instructions for creating the bind file and how to use it:

Copy the following lines into notepad

F9 "dynFxExcludeFX Cfx_Ships_Cp_T6_Risian_Science_Neutronic_Edides_Costumefx $$ dynFxExcludeFX Fx_Ships_Consoles_Cb21_Delphictear $$ dynFxExcludeFX Cfx_Ship_Cp_Cb27_Generate_Plasma_Storm_Costumefx $$ dynFxExcludeFX Fx_Er_Bbs_Beacon_Of_Kahless_Flash $$ dynFxExcludeFX Cfx_Ship_Trait_Temporal_Anchor_Costumefx $$ dynFxExcludeFX C1_E_Ship_Xindi_Lockboxcb15_Kemocite_Weaponry_Bufffx $$ dynFxExcludeFX Fx_Bop_Braceforimpact $$ dynFxExcludeFX Fx_Bop_Godownfighting $$ dynFxExcludeFX Cfx_Ship_Crewteam_Tacticalteam_Buff $$ dynFxExcludeFX Cfx_Ship_Sp_T6_Jellyfish_Cnidarian_Defense_Aoe $$ dynFxExcludeFX Fx_Bop_Photonicofficer_activate"

The above bind will remove the following annoying effects:

Neutronic Eddies

Delphic tear

Plasma Storm Generator

Beacon of Kahless flash

Temporal Anchor (red gravwell)

Kemocite

Brace for impact

Go down fighting

Tac team

Jelly fish defense (the AOE, the lightning is still there, I think there would be another command to remove that if you wanted)

Photonic Officer

The very first command is F9, that's what will activate all this in the game. You can change that to something else if you like, e.g. you can use space bar, just replace F9 with space.

Now, save the notepad with a suitable name, mine is called excludeFX

Notepad will add the .txt extension automatically.

This is where you should save it

F:\Star Trek Online_en\Star Trek Online\Live

Note your drive letter may be different to mine but the rest of the path is the important bit.

Now, in-game, click in the chat box and type the following exactly

/bind_load_file excludeFX.txt

Press enter.

To activate it use the F9 button or whatever you decided to use.

This is persistent across maps and across your account, so all you have to do when you login is press F9 once and you're good for your play session.

I have had occasions when I have to re-enter the /bind_load_file command, but it seems mostly stable.

Note this doesn't stop the actual effects from working, it just hides the visuals you see.

ENJOY a visual spam free STO.

Thanks to Reddit user u/wooyoo See the original discovery post here: Reddit Post