Why does Nioh 2 freeze at 80% loading on Seagate FireCuda 510?

I was losing my mind when entering complex dungeons; the screen would just freeze for 2-3 seconds at 80% loading, killing my flow. I tried disabling every unnecessary startup item in Windows, but loading speeds barely budged, leaving me totally confused. Then I used GamePP NVMe Queue Depth Configuration to bump the queue depth from 32 to 128 and optimized driver read/write priority. It worked like a charm. CrystalDiskMark showed random reads jumped to 61-68 MB/s, and AIDA64 confirmed temperatures stayed stable at 42-51℃.