I have to apply the hotfix tonight. It wasn't out last night and I was getting home after getting stuck in a bad traffic accident back-up so I was less than amused and or patient. Hopefully it will fix the issues.
The workaround was quite simple and worked fine for me.
So, what are solutions to dealing with this patch again?
The workaround for the shiny hair/broken skin texture/broken shader graphics glitches is here: http://forum.bioware...2#entry18031082
It's basically just adding one command line to the game startup which forces the system shader to be at the same quality level as the mesh, which apparently it needs to be to avoid these glitches. It was stuck on high and the patch was supposed to fix it so it was tied to the level set for the mesh. Instead it got locked to low. Oops.
A hotfix is supposedly coming soon.