Civ 7 just freezes up during huge turn calculations on my Zhitai TiPro9000 1TB and latency spikes. Can I fix this with process priority?

This drive was testing my patience; every time the game switched turns, it felt like I was watching a slideshow. Once the TiPro9000's SLC dynamic cache fills up, the write speed plummets from 7000MB/s to under 900MB/s, leaving the system in a brutal I/O wait state for 0.8-1.5 seconds. In a moment of desperation, I tried moving the game to a RAM disk, but I just ran out of memory and got a BSOD—definitely don't do that. Instead, I went into Device Manager and bumped the NVMe controller queue depth from 1024 to 2048 and enabled the forced write cache flush policy. In CrystalDiskMark, my 4K random reads jumped from 48-55MB/s to 65-72MB/s, and the turn-switching stutter felt about 50% better. I had some file corruption errors right after changing the queue depth, but that stopped once I disabled my real-time antivirus. Drive temps are now 45-58℃ and fans are humming at 1400-1600RPM.