My AC Mirage keeps hitching on a Kioxia Exceria Pro 2TB during Paris loads. Is this a resource allocation nightmare?

Tested this on Win11 24H2. While loading Paris districts, HWiNFO showed the controller temp bouncing between 53℃ - 57℃, but the read/write queue depth spiked to 4.1, causing those nasty freezes. I dove into Task Manager $ ightarrow$ Details, right-clicked the game process, and cranked the priority to 'High'. Using Windows Performance Monitor, I saw the queue depth drop back to 2.6, and the stuttering basically vanished. I also flipped the power plan to 'High Performance', keeping response times between 2ms - 5ms across three test loops. That said, in heavy stealth fights with tons of NPCs, I still feel some slight frame drops. It seems like the game's streaming engine is just bottlenecked and no amount of hardware tweaking can fully kill it.