Does Frostpunk 2 experience small file read/write latency on the WD SN850X 1TB during city expansion?

Man, the bigger the city gets, the more this SSD feels like an ancient HDD; my frame rate was tanking from 60 down to 20. The SN850X was struggling with the massive amount of small file indexing for city buildings, with random read/write latency swinging between 12-25ms—a total performance nightmare. I tried disabling all indexing services in Windows, but that just made searching slower and did nothing for the game, which was a complete waste of time. I ended up backing up my data, reformatting the partition, and bumping the NTFS allocation unit size from 4KB to 64KB, while enabling High Performance mode in the driver panel. IOPS tests showed a 15% bump in random reads, and the momentary hitches during expansion are way less noticeable. I actually messed up the partition table as MBR at first and the system wouldn't see it, but switching to GPT fixed it. Temps are stable at 45-52℃, and the read curve is much smoother. Frame times are now steady at 5.1-6.4ms.