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What sort of rendering pipeline are you actually using? Is this using older-style blitting? If so, then I think your approach is ideal, although the blitting methods themselves are not very hardware accelerated and thus possibly not the best if you're going to have lots of transparency and other elements. You might consider doing some more specific profiling to see exactly what is causing your FPS drops.
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