I'm getting these annoying read blocks and stutters when entering ruins in the new Tomb Raider. Why does this keep happening?

Whenever I hit those deep catacombs, the asynchronous loading of scene assets just piles up. I noticed my Kioxia Exceria Pro's random read speeds were jumping wildly between 65-82MB/s, which caused the game to literally freeze for a split second while moving. I tried enabling write-cache flushing in Windows first, but that was a total disaster—it didn't stop the stuttering and actually caused write timeouts during autosaves. That level of frustration made me realize the driver scheduling was the real culprit. I dove into Device Manager, bumped the NVMe controller queue depth from the default 1024 up to 2048, and slammed the power management to High Performance. In CrystalDiskMark stress tests, the 4K random read latency dropped from a sluggish 55-68ms down to a tight 32-41ms. To be honest, the system had a weird disk recognition delay right after the first tweak, but updating the motherboard chipset drivers killed that issue. Temperatures stayed around 44-52℃ with power draw between 6.2-7.1W. Checked the storage analysis panel and the I/O throughput is finally steady, with frame times locked at 5.1-6.4ms. It's a relief, though the initial setup was a bit of a headache.