My FPS tanks in the ruins of Indiana Jones on a FireCuda 530, can I fix this with priority settings?

This drive is seriously testing my patience. The moment I step into the ancient ruins, my FPS dives from 90 down to 35, and it feels like I'm playing a PowerPoint presentation. Even though the FireCuda 530 is rated for insane speeds, I/O wait times hit 18ms - 24ms when loading tons of small files. I tried moving the game to a different partition, but the stuttering stayed exactly the same—it was clearly a system scheduling issue. I ended up killing every useless background service and used a third-party tool to crank the game's disk priority to High. Monitoring via RivaTuner, my frame times stopped swinging between 12ms - 30ms and settled at a clean 10ms - 14ms. I actually triggered a BSOD during the first priority tweak due to resource contention, but lowering the background indexing frequency stabilized it. Temps are fine at 42℃ - 51℃, and my fans are humming steadily at 1400RPM - 1600RPM.