Sfon: Seems if you want many here to take you seriously, you'll need to put up a video.
In all my time tweaking the game, trying out different methods to play it and new things in general, I have never ever experienced the game running faster than usual, or have ever heard anyone ever report a case where the game runs too fast.
I've seen the game run too slowly, I've seen the game run so that only physics are slowed down or distorted (being able to jump quite a few meters high in laggy multiplayer), but nothing like this. I seriously don't believe that this is even possible due to the nature of how the game is made.
OP is referencing that he doesn't remember the game being "so hard" and "thinks" that it's due to speed.
Of course I'm not going to believe that the game is actually running too fast because he thinks it is too hard.