Im going to ditto all of your problems. Ive been working with EA support for weeks now trying to get it to work. I can look past every bug but this 30 second lag every 2-3 seconds makes this game unplayable. I dont understand why its doing it. Ive tried everything I can think of and used all of the advice of the forum and support. I noticed it after the Katy Perry expansion but its gotten worse over time. I used to be able to play for hours then it hit, now I play for minutes if Im that lucky and the lagging begins. All drivers are updated, superpatch is installed, and I did all of the support steps. NOTHING.
Lets see, $50 on base game with about $25 per expansion...with 8 expansions, is about $250 total invested in this game. Not including some of the store stuff Ive bought. Im downright pissed!