Spring RTS Engine

My comp is old, but even large games of BA were perfectly playable before the upgrade. Now I'm getting ~2 fps at game start.

windows xp
GEFORCE4 MX 4000
all spring detail levels set at minimum

It seems the new font is the issue:
If I press F5 to remove UI the framerate jumps from 2fps to a smooth, playable level.
If I turn on LOLUI and remove textual interace elements the framerate increases noticably.

Is this perhaps a bug? It seems a bit ridiculous that the text rendering is so slow.

Is there any way to revert to the old font?

I also suffer from huge drop .. i got about 30fps in CA shortly after start now.. Before update it stayed at max (60fps) for most of the game.

i run spring on single core with forced above average priority.

I have 3ghz dual core and gf8800gts

I discovered the cause - installer overwritten my loader that WAS setting it to 1 core and high priority.

Without it, when it uses both cores, my FPS sux.

I remember someone mentioning the Font renderer being refactored in the latest version.