Issue with OR transparency/bald NPCs

AMD is pretty buggy for OR. The developer (Alenet) doesn't own AMD and has admitted that there are some problems. Your best bet is to find workarounds like you are doing. There are no true fixes. You'll have to sacrifice one thing for the other.

Yeah I still haven't noticed any issues or changes whatsoever with deleting the extra shaders folder but I'm not too much of a realism fan so I might just not be noticing it.

I think extra shaders are for the shadows. But I don't precisely recall. Your call if you don't want shadows, but your best bet for a bug free (as possible. Some thing are buggy) experience is to buy nVidia. I wouldn't do that for one mod, but that's me.