I'm hitting massive I/O response lag during scene transitions in Enshrouded on my X99 Titanium. How do I stop this loading hitch?

Distant textures were popping in like fragmented shards, and this loading lag became a total nightmare when trying to build a base. The PCIe link on the Jginyue X99 Titanium D4 was struggling with large batches of small files, with response times swinging between 2.1-3.8ms, which basically choked the VRAM data exchange. My first instinct was to lower the texture filtering in the GPU panel, but that just made the game look like mud without actually fixing the hitches, which was a total letdown. I ended up using the official tool to flash the BIOS to the latest version and used a partition manager to force a 4K alignment calibration. In random read tests, the response latency plummeted from 2.5ms to a crisp 0.8-1.2ms, making scene loads feel way snappier. I did have a scare where the disk wasn't recognized immediately after the BIOS update, but a full power cycle fixed it. Drive temps stayed around 40-52℃. After 4 hours of gameplay, the texture popping is completely gone, and memory temps are holding steady at 40-52℃.