You have just lowered the refreshrate of your monitor from 85 to 75). Flip by default waits for the monitor to refresh the entire screen (which is done for example 75 times per second) before drawing a new frame. As joker pointed out, use Flip false instead of flip to disable the monitor-waiting.
Frame rate counter
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