Every time I enter a main city in Dragon's Dogma 2, my Gainward RTX 5080 Storm OC freezes for a few seconds. Can I fix this by changing the cache policy?

The moment I hit the city gates, the screen just freezes for three seconds—it's a total immersion killer. Even with 16GB of VRAM, the data path from the SSD to the GPU was hitting a 120-150ms bottleneck when loading massive NPC models. I tried moving the game to a RAM disk, but that was a huge mistake; I ran out of memory instantly and got a BSOD. Talk about a fail. I eventually went into Device Manager, set the NVMe controller power management to 'Maximum Performance,' and reorganized my Windows page file. In CrystalDiskMark, random reads improved from 55MB/s to 72MB/s, and the city stuttering dropped by about 70%. I did run into some file corruption errors after the first cache tweak, which turned out to be my real-time antivirus scanning every tiny file—turning that off fixed it. GPU temps are now 58-64℃, VRAM is 70-76℃, and fans are steady at 1400-1600RPM.