slow drawing

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whenever I draw a few sprites that are about 200x200 pixels my program slows down, this is especially true for 200x200 sized particles where the game slows to a crawl.

I tried switching the driver to opengl but the image masks become visible and I think its even slower.

Is there a free alternative 2d engine?