Doesn't seem to matter for me. If I die, its a 99.99% chance that I will lock up and the actual death cry & animation will take upwards of 10 seconds to start.
And I'm playing on a system that handles the EC just fine everywhere else.
Something tells me this is related to the lockups that happen with the large guardian explosions the EMs can use. Those cause a similar lockup, or crash the client outright.