Best way to preload every asset in game?

[CoszmicRed (Determination)]

I’m making a loading screen (doesn’t really have to have a progress bar) and I want it to yield until all the game’s assets are loaded, I tried this script but it doesn’t work. (Note: I tried to use :GetDescendants() as well)

local assets = {
	workspace:GetChildren(),
	game.StarterGui:GetChildren(),
	game.ReplicatedStorage:GetChildren()
}

game:GetService("ContentProvider"):PreloadAsync(assets)

--stuff

[EgizianoEG (Egiziano)]

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