Is the Kioxia Exceria Plus G4 1TB causing IO queue bottlenecks and stutters in Ghost of Yotei?

Turning quickly in the snowy plains caused these tiny, twitchy micro-stutters that made me want to roast the game's optimization. The Kioxia Exceria Plus G4 1TB was struggling with fragmented small-file reads, with the IO queue depth jumping wildly between 32-64, leaving the CPU hanging. I tried disabling real-time antivirus scanning, which only helped by about 5% but left my system exposed—a terrible trade-off. I eventually went into the registry to change the disk scheduling algorithm from 'Balanced' to 'High Performance' and killed the Superfetch service. In Performance Monitor, disk response time dropped from 15-30ms to a tight 8-12ms, and the stuttering basically disappeared. I actually hit a BSOD on the first boot after the registry edit, so I had to roll back the driver before trying again. Drive temps are between 45℃ - 55℃. I backed up the optimized registry keys via a system snapshot, and temps remain steady at 45℃ - 55℃.