UE 5.1.1 UI response extremely slow

Hey guys, I’ve been working on a project with another person recently and the UE has all of a sudden become extremely slow and almost unresponsive. This extends to the point where if you try to close UE 5.1.1, it crashes and you have to force it closed via Task Manager. Control + z takes anywhere from 15s - 45s to work along with close major tabs.

It isnt a very large project at less than 5 (4.81)gb and this issue has extended to all of my 5.0 and above projects. Has anyone else run into this issue? I saw an old forum post from November of last year (2022) and they fixed it by removing certain files that I don’t seem to have.

Thanks for any and all help.