Did you check memory usage at the same time? Install would certainly be IO intensive but probably shouldn't max out a decent nvme drive.
If you ran out of ram due to the games installer and you started swapping that could quickly max out IO and DEs tend to stall quickly when the system is short on ram which also matches your symptoms.
Did you check memory usage at the same time? Install would certainly be IO intensive but probably shouldn't max out a decent nvme drive.
If you ran out of ram due to the games installer and you started swapping that could quickly max out IO and DEs tend to stall quickly when the system is short on ram which also matches your symptoms.