Dynamic Vertex Buffers

ynamic vertex buffers on the other hand allow us to manipulate the information inside the vertex buffer each frame if we need to. These buffers are much slower than static vertex buffers but that is the trade off for the extra functionality.

The reason we use dynamic vertex buffers with 2D rendering is because we often want to move the 2D image around the screen to different locations. A good example is a mouse pointer, it gets moved often so the vertex data that represents its position on the screen needs to change often as well.

Two extra things to note. Don't use dynamic vertex buffers unless they are absolutely called for, they are quite a bit slower than static buffers. Secondly never destroy and recreate a static vertex buffer each frame, this can completely lock the video card (which I have seen on ATI but not on Nvidia) and is far worse in overall performance when compared to using dynamic vertex buffers.