My Fanxiang S910Max has weird latency swings during map loads in Dota 2. Timing issue?

While fast-switching screens, I noticed my response latency was bouncing between 1.1-2.5ms. It didn't crash the game, but those micro-stutters were driving me crazy. I tried enabling Windows Game Mode and clearing my RAM, but my FPS just hovered around 100-120 without any real improvement. I then went into disk management, switched sector alignment from Auto to Manual, and updated the motherboard's NVMe drivers. The monitoring panel showed latency stabilizing at 0.8-1.2ms, and frame time variance dropped from 12.4-18.8ms to 8.5-11.1ms. I initially tried overclocking my CPU to push through the lag, but that just caused local overheating; after two reboots and a voltage rollback, I realized the storage link was the real culprit. The drive runs a bit warm during long sessions, but it's finally performing as advertised. CrystalDiskMark confirms random reads are now stable at 0.8-1.2ms.