Why does Valorant freeze at 80% loading on Galax B760M D4?

Every time the loading bar hits 80% before a match, the game freezes for 1.5 seconds, which is an awful experience for a competitive shooter. I tried installing the game on a different partition, but loading times actually increased by 1 second, which felt completely pointless. I accessed the GamePP NVMe Queue Depth Configuration, bumped the depth from 1024 to 2048, and enabled the forced write cache flush. CrystalDiskMark showed 4K random reads improved from 52MB/s to 74MB/s, and AIDA64 confirmed temperatures at 45-52℃. Now I can verify