Well I have a class to handle all the UI tasks. Now I want to have a splash screen. So I made a pic and added it to my Content folder. I have an automated void to do everything for me below. But when the sprite draws all I get is a white square, but if I take out Thread.Sleep it draws fine. How can I get the SpriteBatch to fully draw befor Thread.Sleep?

public void Draw()
        {
            //Draw the Splash
            DrawSplash();
            //Sleep
            Thread.Sleep(1000);
            //Restore
            Graphics.Clear(Color.CornflowerBlue);
        }

Make sure you are drawing that splash spritebatch with immediate sort mode.

Thread.Sleep is not what you want to be doing inside of a game loop. To have a splash screen display for a certain amount of time, you should be using the GameTime object that is passed in to the Update and Draw methods and a splash screen tracking variable.

Then everytime Update is called, decrement that variable. When it is below zero, then don't display the Splash screen any longer. You might also want to explore the concept of GameState a little further. Since what you really want to do is have your game in a "Splash Screen" state for a certain amount of time.

But pausing your game loop, never a good idea.

I agree with what's been said above, you seem to misunderstand how the graphics card and the API work. Just because you've called draw, doesn't mean that it's on the screen, nothing gets drawn *at all* until Present is called in EndDraw, which you should just think of as "the end of the draw method". All calling draw does is setting up a queue of draw calls that will have no visual impact until 2-3 frames later. Do what George suggested and start a timer as 1 second, decrement time as it passes, and when it reaches zero, stop drawing the splash. The way you're doing it currently is just never going to work.

I third that. Also if the splash screen is going to show any longer, it may be a good time to load anything on a bg thread while its showing.

For completeness I would like to link to the Game State Management Sample on this very site.