I can confirm the game is now hitching in a way it never used to before.
I can't remember for sure when the issue started, but a couple of days ago sounds about right to me. Looking at some files on my PC I can see that Javelin received an update on the 20th, while the EA launcher received an update on the 22nd and then again on the 26th (UTC dates).
No system updates or other configuration changes on my end, this problem clearly stems from EA—as often is the case (remember when two months ago a faulty Javelin update caused some people's PCs to stutter any time they pressed a key? Good times. Still not 100% fixed, by the way).
