I'm getting terrible texture flickering in Delta Force when sprinting across the map with my Seagate FireCuda 530 1TB. How do I fix this lag?

Distant building textures were flickering like broken glass while I was running, which completely killed my aim and immersion. Checking the logs, the 4K random read latency on my FireCuda 530 1TB was swinging wildly between 45-88ms. I first tried updating the motherboard chipset drivers, but that actually made the flickering 15% worse—a total waste of time. I then used a partition tool to check 4K alignment and found the partition offset was off by 1 sector. After a full reformat to a perfectly aligned state, the random read latency dropped to 22-31ms, and the texture popping vanished. Interestingly, game boot times actually slowed down by 2 seconds after the repartition until I disabled Windows Real-Time Scanning. The drive now runs between 48-55℃, with the heatsink shaving off about 12℃ from the peak. AIDA64 stress tests over 10 rounds show zero errors; the partition fix actually worked.