Why does the AMD Ryzen 7 9700X show a massive drop in read/write response during scene changes in NTE?

Having a 9700X and still dealing with loading stutters felt like driving a supercar through a swamp—absolutely ridiculous. The memory controller was choking on the massive resource requests from Neverness to Everness, with response times spiking to 85-115ms, often leaving me staring at a black screen. I even tried installing the game on a RAM disk, but I ran out of capacity and the game crashed mid-boot, which taught me I needed to fix the scheduling instead. I ran a two-hour random R/W stress test and saw temps hit 78-85℃ in HWInfo, triggering some light throttling. I disabled all background update services and forced the High Performance power plan. CrystalDiskMark showed random reads jumping from 40 MB/s to 52-58 MB/s, cutting load times by about 7 seconds. My idle power draw went up by 5W, so I had to set up a sleep timer to deal with that. CPU temps are now 55-62℃, and fans are humming steadily at 1400-1600RPM.