Why does the loading bar freeze in Alan Wake during complex scenes?

I was so hyped to play, but during the complex psychological scenes, the Ti600's write speed just plummeted, leaving the loading bar frozen. I tried running a disk defragmentation—which was a total rookie mistake—and it did nothing but wear out my drive, leaving me annoyed. I fixed it using the GamePP NVMe Queue Depth Configuration, raising the depth to 2048 and enabling the forced write cache flush. It worked! CrystalDiskMark showed 4K random reads jumped from 50-62MB/s to 75-88MB/s, and GamePP Hardware Sensor showed the write speed stopped dropping from 5000MB/s to 800MB/s. Temps stayed at 45-55℃ per GamePP Hardware Sensor.