I know this is very late, but others may see this. The same error will occur if you have more than 8 columns that Microsoft considers lookup columns, which can include workflow status, people and others. I upped the central admin throttling to increase it and it worked for me after getting the above error for a while.
PS
Used fiddler to watch the traffic to the sharepoint site to get a better answer about the error.
PS
Used fiddler to watch the traffic to the sharepoint site to get a better answer about the error.