GPGPU Programming for Games and Science

GPU Computing 173

The views determine which portions of the buffers are set to the constant

values. The color and depth-stencil views created for the back buffer have

views that cover the entire buffer, so all buffer values are set. It is possible

to have multiple views for a single buffer, so if you want to clear only a

subrectangle of a buffer, you must create a view of that size and pass that to

the clear calls.

Once you are finished using the color buffer, color view, depth-stencil

buffer, and depth-stencil view, remember to call their

Release() functions so

that their reference counts are decremented. If you plan on resizing the win-

dow during runtime,