How to make a loading screen GUI wait for the game to loaded first before deleting itself? in Roblox studio? - lua

So I was developeding a game using Roblox studio (Roblox Game engine) I was just making a simple loading screen that stay until the game is fully loaded but I don't know how to make the loading screen actually stay on the user ScreenGUI until the game fully loaded.
I want to make a simple loading screen on Roblox studio that deleted itself after the game fully loaded.
But I don't know how to make the loading screen to wait for the game to fully loaded first before deleting itself.


Just make a script inside the GUI, the GUI elements should be in a GUI element (other than ScreenGUI) to make it easier, and the script should be in that element. Here is what the script would look like:
frame = script.Parent
game.Loaded:Connect(function()
frame.Visible = false
end)
This script checks if the game is loaded, and when it is, it hides the parent. As stated before, the parent should be the frame holding all the content, or any other GUI element, I would recommend Frame, as it is only a bold color and will not have any effect unless applied in the Frame or through a script.

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My primary app window stutters greatly when dragged around screen. It is even so bad that if I drag the window e.g. 10 inches left and releases mouse button... The Window will then continue to move around the screen for 2-5 seconds more!
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In all honesty my form is very large (I spit out 7 different tools which all use most of it)
It is possible a TFrame based solution - as long as not loaded into memory - could solve this. But there are many problem in this... For one I have not abstracted reading e.g. options... I.e. I read myCheckbox.Checked to determine if a given option is enabled before passing it on my separated business logic.
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Any ideas on how to workaround this? Reducing the problem is enough... I am thinking about:
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It not just my curiosity, recently I've received a bugreport concerning one of my AS3 applications. This bug can be reproduced only if the quality in flash player is set to LOW (HIGH/MEDIUM - everything is ok). The bug changes the application behaviour, but it's a mystery for me, why it happens only for LOW quality while quality is said to influence rendering and visual appearance, not the code or behaviour.
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LOW
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If it only happens when rendering it set to low, then it's probably a timing issue - i.e., the bug has always been there, but because you're wrapping up rendering earlier, you can trigger then bug. Is the bug reporter's computer a slow one? Is there a lot happening at once? Is the menu being removed, set to invisible, or repositioned?
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