diff --git a/d3d12/src/device.rs b/d3d12/src/device.rs
index 43781c933b..96d6866ad8 100644
--- a/d3d12/src/device.rs
+++ b/d3d12/src/device.rs
@@ -315,14 +315,15 @@ impl Device {
         (signature, hr)
     }
 
-    pub fn create_render_target_view(
+    pub fn create_render_target_view_from_desc(
         &self,
-        resource: Resource,
         desc: &RenderTargetViewDesc,
         descriptor: CpuDescriptor,
     ) {
+        // A null pResource is used to initialize a null descriptor,
+        // which guarantees D3D11-like null binding behavior (reading 0s, writes are discarded)
         unsafe {
-            self.CreateRenderTargetView(resource.as_mut_ptr(), &desc.0 as *const _, descriptor);
+            self.CreateRenderTargetView(std::ptr::null_mut(), &desc.0 as *const _, descriptor);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/wgpu-hal/src/dx12/device.rs b/wgpu-hal/src/dx12/device.rs
index 7dfb3e3abb..86c0fc0cec 100644
--- a/wgpu-hal/src/dx12/device.rs
+++ b/wgpu-hal/src/dx12/device.rs
@@ -135,10 +135,7 @@ impl super::Device {
 
         let mut rtv_pool = descriptor::CpuPool::new(raw.clone(), d3d12::DescriptorHeapType::Rtv);
         let null_rtv_handle = rtv_pool.alloc_handle();
-        // A null pResource is used to initialize a null descriptor,
-        // which guarantees D3D11-like null binding behavior (reading 0s, writes are discarded)
-        raw.create_render_target_view(
-            d3d12::ComPtr::null(),
+        raw.create_render_target_view_from_desc(
             &d3d12::RenderTargetViewDesc::texture_2d(
                 winapi::shared::dxgiformat::DXGI_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_UNORM,
                 0,