I'm getting these annoying micro-stutters in Horizon Zero Dawn whenever a large machine spawns on my WD SN850. How do I fix this?

Running through the wilds is great until a giant machine appears and the game just hitches for a split second. It's a terrible feeling. I found that the old firmware on the WD SN850 1TB was struggling with the game's massive decompression requests, with response times swinging wildly between 15-30ms. I tried disabling the Windows indexing service, but that did absolutely nothing—just a waste of time. I eventually used the official firmware tool to update to the latest version and used a partition assistant to re-align the 4K sectors. In the disk analyzer, random read latency dropped from 22ms to 8-12ms, and the stutters vanished. I had tried moving the page file to another drive first, but that just slowed down my boot time. Now the drive stays between 40-50℃ and runs perfectly. Ran a final benchmark to verify the speeds and everything is within spec.