Why is Dead Space Remake stuck at 99% loading screen?

I was so excited to play, but loading those oppressive ship scenes was a slog as the bar just sat at 99%. I tried running a disk defragmentation, which was a rookie mistake that only increased NAND wear without helping. I used the GamePP NVMe Queue Depth Configuration to push the queue depth to 2048 and activated forced write cache flush. CrystalDiskMark showed random reads improved to 90-110MB/s, and AIDA64 confirmed temperatures stayed at 48-58℃. Now I can finally switch