http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnhar/archive/2008/05/23/lock-contention-during-load-screen-animations.aspxIf your game has a lot of content, your LoadContent call might take a while. If loading takes a long time, you might want to display a &quot;please wait&quot; message. If you value polish, you might even decide this message should be animated in someenCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnhar/archive/2008/05/23/lock-contention-during-load-screen-animations.aspx#8544941Sat, 24 May 2008 09:52:42 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8544941kolorahl<p>I'm currently creating a couple 'background' threads to run my loading code on and run the animation code while those loading threads are still alive; is that solution similar to the one described here? Will this help animated loading screens load content faster?</p>