How do I fix combat scene stutter in The Last of Us Part I?

Combat scene switching in The Last of Us Part I was painfully slow due to the YMTC Zhitai TiPlus7100 4TB SLC overflow. I tried increasing virtual memory, but it just worsened the read/write conflicts. I used GamePP NVMe Queue Depth Config to increase queue depth from 1024 to 2048 and enabled forced write cache flush. CrystalDiskMark showed 4K random read speeds jumping from 45-52MB/s to 68-75MB/s, cutting load times from 12s to 5s.