Why does my Colorful BATTLE-AX B450M-T M.2 drive spike in latency during scene transitions in Dead Space 2?

Elevator doors open, screen freezes—that was my life. The Colorful BATTLE-AX B450M-T M.2 was basically taking a nap during massive asset loads. I joked that the I/O scheduling felt like dial-up internet. To test the limit, I ran three 4K renders in the background while playing, and the 4K random reads tanked to 10MB/s. Absolutely pathetic. I fired up GamePP and forced the NVMe Queue Depth from 1024 to 2048, while tweaking the Windows write cache policy. The result? Loading times dropped from 15 seconds to 4 seconds. It felt like a miracle. I then used the GamePP System Backup & Config Export Tool to save this 'brute force' profile so other struggling users can just import it.