Major Issue with Swarm UE5

When I try to build lighting, it takes what feels like 500x more time to bake lighting. Previously, the project would build lighting within 2-3 minutes.

What started this > (I cloned the project and upgraded it to UE5.0, I installed a GPU lightmass plugin, then uninstalled GPU lightmass plugin and verified engine files in the epic games launcher to restore settings to default (GPU wasn’t working so I restored back to CPU baking).

Ever since then, I have had these incredibly long light builds. I found these errors inside my Swarm, but I’m unsure what they mean. It had also mentioned it couldn’t find the engine directory so it was defaulting. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling basically everything. 00:00: Failed to determine engine directory: Defaulting to

Thank you!

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