I've not had any gameplay lag at all so far. Texture lag is just a delay waiting for textures to fill in.
My sim was all over the art gallery and it was lovely. I encountered no problems at that time.
I'm going to go back and pick up where I left off before the last hard freeze, which is to resume trying to place sims into town. I have found hard freezing when placing lots or families into a world is a random issue with the Macs. I don't usually have hard freezing in actual game play, but other Mac users have, so I will have to see how this develops. I may need to play a small world like Ridgeview for comparison. I have a feeling it's some sort of memory hogging issue, with some actions using up too much memory at one time. I keep sending reports to Apple with every incident and hopefully they will pass along the information to Cider developers and EA.
