So I tried various things. I cleaned up my Mac freeing up space plus all the maintenance scripts, I restarted the OS, tried to create new projects, tried to run the created projects off an external HDD but nothing. I even reinstalled 4.17. I also confirm that ConsoleVariables.ini is properly edited.
4.17 will just not run, I got up to 96% loading and that’s the highest it got. Let me know if I can provide you with any more information.