Game is on Unreal Engine 5, so install it on SSD

[Grim Purrr~urut]

On HDD it will slowly load every launch, textures may load very slowly, stutters (that are bane of all UE versions) would be even more noticeable and sometimes game may even crash, it will look soap-y and movement can slow down sometimes. It is a common problem for UE5 games installed on HDD or on SDD where no free space left.

However, on SSD it runs smoothly and none of those problems are present.

Also, try to have at least 30-40 free GB on your SSD drive - this way it will serve more and games on it will run better.

So if you have game lagging, even when you have good CPU and GPU - this may be the problem.