My Zhitai TiPro9000 4TB keeps hitting I/O blocks during huge map loads in Control 2, causing total freezes. Why is this happening?

Whenever I pushed deep into the FBI headquarters, the screen would just go dead while my fans screamed at max RPM. Even though the Zhitai TiPro9000 4TB has great sequential speeds, it completely choked on fragmented asset calls, with the controller dipping weirdly in the 4.2-4.8GB/s peak range, leaving my loading bar stuck at 98%. I first tried killing the HDD power-saving mode in Windows, but that was a waste of time—it didn't stop the freezes and just bumped my idle power draw up by 1.2W. After flashing the latest firmware and switching the Windows write cache policy to 'Force Flush', I saw the 4K random read latency in CrystalDiskMark plummet from 52-68ms down to 31-38ms. I actually bricked my session with a BSOD the first time I messed with the registry, and it only stabilized once I dialed the write buffer size back to 256KB. The drive stayed around 48-54℃, feeling warm to the touch. I used a low-level storage tool to confirm the I/O queue depth was finally optimized and saved the settings.