Windlight is great but...

The bugs are just killer. My pc is pretty modern so I don't have many lag issues. With Windlight, no matter if I have video settings minumum or all the way up, the rezzing takes forever. I've had issues where I couldn't see my avatar at all or I could see only a flickering image of him lol. The light is really, really bright. I tried adjusting the gamma of the sun and even turning down my monitor / comp brightness but it bugs my eyes (yeah sounds like a personal problem haha). The ironic part about the brightness is that closeup, my avatar features appear shadowed almost the whole time. XD Anyone else experiencing this?