My Kioxia EXCERIA PRO 1TB causes the game to freeze during loading in The Hunt, how do I fix this?

It's honestly embarrassing that a tech demo could completely lock up my drive. The Kioxia EXCERIA PRO 1TB was fighting with motherboard signal interference in PCIe 4.0 mode, causing the link to flip-flop between Gen4 and Gen3. This created 0.5s I/O hangs that crashed the game instantly. I tried reseating the drive, but it still froze every ten minutes—a total waste of my time. I went into the BIOS and forced the PCIe slot protocol to Gen4 instead of 'Auto,' and disabled Link State Power Management in Windows. CrystalDiskMark now shows a rock-solid 7000 MB/s without any sudden dips. I had a couple of detection delays during cold boots after the lock, but a motherboard BIOS update cleared that right up. Temps are sitting at 46 - 52℃. I've backed up this specific config because it's the only way to keep the drive from choking.