Why are NPC textures loading so slowly in Dragon Age: The Veilguard?

Entering the main city was a nightmare; my WD Black SN770 2TB read latency spiked between 110-150ms per HWiNFO, leaving NPCs as blurry messes. I tried installing the game on different physical partitions, but the lag triggered whenever reads exceeded 3GB/s per CrystalDiskMark. I then accessed GamePP NVMe Queue Depth Configuration, increasing the queue from 64 to 256 and optimizing I/O priority. CrystalDiskMark showed 4K random reads rose to 62-68MB/s and loading dropped by 4s, while AIDA64 confirmed temps at 42-50℃. Now it's perfectly set