Loading large towns in Avowed is painfully slow on my Intel 760P 512GB due to read/write bottlenecks; how do I fix this lag?

It was a total disaster. Trying to run a 2026 AAA title on a 512GB legacy drive felt like climbing a mountain with a snail; every load took forever. Disk usage was pegged at 99%, causing constant I/O wait states that actually dragged down my CPU usage because it was just waiting for data—it was incredibly frustrating. I first tried lowering all the graphics settings, but while the FPS went up, the loading times didn't budge an inch, which was just torture. I eventually manually set my virtual memory to the fastest partition and locked the size at 16GB-16GB, then used a script to kill all background indexing services. In Resource Monitor, the disk queue length dropped from 12/sec to 2-5/sec, and loading times fell from 45 seconds to 22 seconds. I did have one slow boot after fixing the page file, but disabling the super-cache feature fixed it. Drive temps stayed between 40-46℃. I used a system image tool to back up the optimized storage config, and temps remain at 40-46℃.