LML (vfs.asi) causing constant microstutters during traversal or NPC-intense scenarios

Brand new PC, here are the specs:

• 7500X3D

• 9070XT

• Silicon Power 1TB UD90 NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 SSD

• 16GB DDR5 CL30 6000MT/s

Installed RDR2, game runs butter smooth, then i start installing LML and as soon as vfs.asi enters my game folder, the stutters begin, they're every few seconds during traversal and are super annoying.

Here's what i've tried so far:

• https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/1502 every possible version of this mod or any alternative that exists out there, didn't fix it, only makes it "less bad"

• Windows 11 high performance power plan

• Setting the LogLevel to 0 in lml.ini

• Emptying vfs.log and putting the file to read only

• Lowering my refresh rates or graphic settings

• Capping my framerate to 120 (or even lower)

• Only having LML, and not scripthook or anything else (scripthook by itself gives me no stutters, i can run asi mods flawlessly)

I have a decent SSD (more than good enough for something like RDR2 and some mods), a very strong GPU (can run the game on ultra settings easily at averages of 150FPS in St. Denis); yet, these micro stutters happen ALL the time, even with a completely empty mod folder. Unsure if relevant to this topic but search indexing is enabled on my SSD, and it's the only drive i have on this PC (so not "just move RDR2 to a separate drive" as a solution please)

No custom settings or anything of the sort in AMD Adrenalin Software, everything has stock settings there.

I want this to make sense, and i hope someone can help me make sense of it, because i've been looking like a degenerate all over the internet, and some people have had this fixed, but nothing seems to work for me.

Example of the stutters (towards the end of the video): https://streamable.com/imtgw3