Yes, i did follow those intructions on the sticky and it helped considerably.
Stil. That is no excuse for a game with this calibre of graphics and animations to run this bad.
Its not about developing for older hardware. Its about developing bad habbits. If you simply let things like this happen, they will continue on that path of making slower software.
Software will get slower than hardware gets faster. Thats the problem.
If you think this is about consumerism and making people buy new hardware. Making your game run like crap isnt the best way to do it. Trust me.