How do I get rid of those instant freezes that happen every time the game auto-saves in Far Cry 7?

Flying over the jungle or hitting a new outpost would trigger a noticeable twitch in the visuals; it's frustrating that this happens even on a V360 liquid-cooled rig. The storage paired with my Valkyrie V360 was struggling with random small-file writes, with response times swinging between 20-48ms, leaving the CPU waiting on I/O. I tried disabling auto-saves, but after a crash wiped an hour of progress, I realized I had to fix this at the system level. I updated the NVMe controller drivers, enabled 'Force Write Cache Flush' in Device Manager, and switched to the High Performance power plan. In CrystalDiskMark, random writes jumped from 170 MB/s to 215-245 MB/s, and the saving stutters are basically gone. I noticed a slight delay during shutdown after the tweak, which I fixed by disabling Fast Startup. Drive temps are 45-52℃, and frame times are now locked in at 8.2-11.5ms.