I'm getting these tiny micro-stutters during stealth sections in MGSV on an Intel 660P. How do I stop these freezes?

It was unbearable. In the middle of a high-tension stealth mission, I'd get these 0.3-second freezes every few steps. It felt like the game was tugging on my inputs. The Intel 660P 2TB has a dynamic SLC cache that, once full, lets the read speeds plummet from 1500MB/s to under 400MB/s. I tried setting my virtual memory to half the remaining disk space, but that just created more fragmentation and did absolutely nothing—a total waste of a suggestion. I eventually went into Device Manager and pushed the NVMe controller queue depth to 1024, then flashed the latest firmware. CrystalDiskMark showed my 4K random reads jump from 35-42MB/s to 48-55MB/s, and the stutters vanished. I did have a brief issue where the drive wasn't recognized after the firmware update, but switching power management to 'High Performance' fixed it. SSD temps are 40-48℃, heatsink is 50-55℃. I backed up the write policy just in case, though the drive still runs a bit warm at 46-52℃.