My Intel 760P 1TB is hitting severe random read latency as my city grows in Manor Lords. Any fix?

That feeling where your mouse can't keep up with the screen while managing your manor is absolutely garbage; it's like the whole system just freezes. Since the Intel 760P is an older NVMe drive, its response time swings wildly between 120-180ms when handling tons of small assets, which makes the game engine choke while waiting for data sync. I first tried a defrag tool, but since it's an SSD, that was a total waste of time and just added unnecessary wear—honestly, it was pretty frustrating. I then used the official Intel tool to flash the latest firmware and manually set the disk I/O priority to High in the registry. Monitoring the frame times, the jagged 22-45ms curve smoothed out to a consistent 14-18ms, and the city simulation feels night and day. I did notice the boot time was sluggish right after the firmware update, but reconfiguring the Fast Boot options fixed it. Drive temps are sitting at 38-46℃. System logs confirm the I/O blocking is gone, though my RAM is running a bit warm at 58-63℃.