OMG. I Finally Finally figured this out.
OK. So I have a Intel Core-i7 4770k processor which has variable speed control depending on how hard it is working. Various other people have processors that do the same thing.
Mine happens to default to 800MHz when it isn't doing anything and up to 4300MHz when it is fully active.
Turns out that EACore.dll doesn't like it if the CPU/Processor is reporting a very low speed.
Anyhow, I forced my processor to run at a specific speed e.g. 3500 MHz which was reported in (My Computer -> Properties)
Note that the reported processor speed is what is important. The FAR RIGHT number in the "Processor:" line.
And then Origin Works!
Sims 3 Works and connects to Origin
This fixes the following bugs that are over the place.
Crashing dlls/executables
PAUL.dll
EACore.dll
OriginLegacyCLI.exe
And even some login issues some people have.
Multiple tools that Origin uses goes through EACore.dll so this is a cause for many different types of failures.
I found my way to this solution because someone else was having login issues with his AMD 955 processor and found out that switching in another processor with fixed timing fixed it.
