How to fix momentary freezes when loading regions in Death Stranding?

Crossing the wilderness was ruined by sudden freezes where the game would just stop. I tried enabling Fast Startup in Windows, but RivaTuner still showed read latency fluctuations between 120-180ms. I used the GamePP NVMe Queue Depth Configuration to set the read queue to 1024 and enabled the forced write cache flush. CrystalDiskMark showed 4K random reads rose from 50 to 72 MB/s, and AIDA64 confirmed temperatures stabilized at 48-55℃ with fans at 1400-1600RPM.