@EA_Shepard just FYI: the problem remains on my side as well (Windows 11, 128 Gbyte RAM, M.2 SSDs, NVidia 4900, newest EA App version... so from my point of view this is not a RAM, Performance or so issue...) As already mentioned: the EA App pings home during the offline mode. NB: sometimes I see messages such as: "cloud connection failed" or "we try to re-connect ..." -> this is a real mess as in offline mode I would not expect to see those information! Would you?
BTW: When I start a game in online mode (e.g. mass effect legendary edition) then it takes up to 5-6 minutes to get a message back: "cloud synchronisation problem... would you like to start using the localy stored game files?). So after this pops up I can play the game but I'm tired to wait 5 minutes every time I start a game so this is the underlying issue for the "offline mode solution".