BF2042 constantly reading hard drive

GeForce RTX3090

AMD R9 5950X

32GB DDR4 3600

NVME SSD (a lot of free space)

Win11 Pro latest patch

Latest GeForce driver

I can play the game without too many glitches, but not my brother who has a way lower-end machine. But because he experienced constant stutters, lag spikes, and long load times, we checked what was wrong and it turned out that BOTH of our machines use the SSD like hell. In the performance monitor we can see that the Disk usage is exceptionally high compared to any other apps and games (including earlier Bfs).

The only difference here is that my computer can deal with it (as it's a rather decent one), but his machine struggles to simultaneously use the SSD and render the game.

The "funny" thing is, there's already a video on YT showing exactly the same issue on a rather similar computer. My brother's config:

Radeon RX580

Intel i7 4790K

16GB DDR3 1866

Samsung 870 Evo SATA SSD

Win 10 Pro

Latest Radeon driver

Both of us run the game from the Origin launcher and no other 3rdparty apps were running in the background, but the essentials only.

Here's the video about the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbiDCD45a3g