I'm getting I/O queue blocking during city exploration in FF7 Rebirth on a Soyo SY-A320D4+, should I change queue depth?

Walking through the streets of Midgar, I'd get these tiny hitches every few seconds. They only lasted a few milliseconds, but they were enough to throw off my timing. It turned out the I/O queue on the Soyo SY-A320D4+ was getting slammed by next-gen textures, causing random read latency to spike from 0.1ms to a miserable 15-22ms. I tried enabling Windows Game Mode, but while the responsiveness felt slightly better, the hitches were still there; it was a cautious attempt that just didn't cut it. I went into the Device Manager, manually bumped the NVMe controller queue depth to 2048, and used a partition tool to align the 4K sectors. In CrystalDiskMark, random reads jumped from 55MB/s to 80-88MB/s, and the city stutters mostly vanished. I did have one sudden reboot right after changing the queue depth, but switching the power plan to High Performance fixed it. SSD temps are staying between 42-50℃. After running a random R/W test, the interference is gone, and the 42-50℃ temp is stable.