Character Select Blacked Out?

Hey folks. Not a common poster on here, but I got an issue after today's patch.

Went to log into Virtue (and later checked to see that the same was happening on other servers) and my toons are black silhouettes on the character select screen. They have one or two details which are actually colored and rendered (such as a face detail, glasses, chest detail, auras, or jackets), but the rest is a black shadow. When I logged in, the in-game environment was basically a greyed-out mess with only a few lighting effects visible.

I got this on test back during the i17 open beta, but it did get resolved (I don't particularly remember how)

Anyone else getting this, and how can ya fix it?

EDIT: Okay, fiddling with Ambient Occlusion settings seems to "correct" it, just by wiggling the slider (you can put it back to the original setting without retriggering the effect). But each time I zone, the greyed-out-whatever returns. Same if I go from the game world into the Enhancement screen. More fiddling around shows that I might have shadows too high? I seem to be able to move between the enh screen and game-world without provoking the error again. ...and Zoning appears to have been made normal. ... So apparently I need to be on the lowest shadows setting. :P

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Same thing with me. The people, including my characters, look like ghosts.

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I talked about this in a global channel. They mentioned that the world detail had increased with the patch today, so it was necessary for come users to lower their settings to compensate. I didn't see anything about it in the Patch Notes for today, but maybe it wasn't something that they felt like was necessary to post.

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