Scene transitions in Silent Hill 2 Remake are painfully slow on my Intel 760P. Would optimizing partition alignment help the loading speed?

This drive is barely hanging on with modern 4K textures; entering a new area felt like watching a puzzle piece itself together, which was honestly pathetic. The Intel 760P's sequential reads peak around 2000MB/s, causing severe I/O bottlenecks with the remake's massive asset streams. I tried capping the graphics settings, but the game looked like a blurry mess from the 90s—a useless fix that left me speechless. I used a partition tool to verify 4K alignment and ran a system-level storage optimization. CrystalDiskMark showed random reads climbing from 35-42MB/s to 48-55MB/s, shaving about 4 seconds off loading screens. After the first cleanup, disk usage spiked to 100% for a while, but disabling the background antivirus scan fixed that. Temps are stable at 35-42℃ with a response time of 0.08ms. I backed up the partition parameters, and the overall system response finally feels snappy.