Why does Metaphor: ReFantazio stutter during combat scene switching?

Combat stutters were killing my flow, especially when summoning units. I tried setting virtual memory to half the disk, which worsened read/write conflicts. I used GamePP NVMe Queue Depth Config to increase depth to 2048 and enable forced write cache refresh. CrystalDiskMark showed 4K random read speeds jumping from 45-52MB/s to 68-75MB/s. Load times dropped from 12s to 5s. This export is clean.