How do I handle the severe frame drops during turn transitions caused by Samsung 9100 PRO read/write latency in Civ 7?

The amount of data this game reads is insane. Every time the turn switched, the drive felt like it was choking, and my FPS would tank to 15—I honestly wanted to throw my PC out the window. Even though the Samsung 9100 PRO is a PCIe 5.0 beast, it struggled with Civ 7's fragmented small-file reads, leading to massive I/O blocking. I tried closing every background app, but disk usage stayed pegged at 99%, which was a joke. I eventually used Samsung Magician to flash the latest firmware and switched the write cache to High Performance mode while disabling Windows Superfetch/Indexing. In my tests, turn transition times dropped from 12 seconds to 4 seconds, and the FPS drops vanished. I did hit two BSODs right after the firmware update, which required a clean reinstall of the NVMe drivers to stabilize. The SSD runs hot at 52-60℃, so the heatsink is absolutely mandatory here. I've backed up these settings, and the performance is finally consistent.