http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnhar/archive/2007/03/09/contentmanager-readasset.aspxContentManager.ReadAsset is a new function coming in the next version of the XNA Framework . What is it for, and why should you care? You almost certainly don't care. In fact you should probably stop reading this blog post right now. ReadAsset is forenCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnhar/archive/2007/03/09/contentmanager-readasset.aspx#8998148Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:56:27 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8998148Maerius<p>Great article!</p> <p>But I have one question. Game class supplies us with an instance of ContentManager (Game.Content), so we should just create the second one?</p> <p>In Understanding XNA Framework Performance we can read that it is ok to have multiple instances (of ContentManager), but only one per thread. Is it ok to create a second instance on the main thread?</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnhar/archive/2007/03/09/contentmanager-readasset.aspx#9891111Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:03:05 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9891111Dave Burford<p>incrediably useful post, don't under estimate it! &nbsp;automatically sharing resources is sometimes far far from the desirable behaviour (although I understand why, I was a bit shocked that it was the default!) - invaluable to me to now know how to disable it!</p>