UE4 running extremely slow, mostly unresponsive

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I’m using 4.17.2 and I just tried to open a project. It loaded up pretty quickly but then it just went reeaaallly slow all of a sudden. Once it loads up it says ‘finished asset discovery’ and all textures are kinda blurry. I can click twice on the scene properly before it basically freezes/going extremely slow.
I tried closing any other programs to see if those affected it, and also tried restarting.

Also, just to make sure it wasn’t just my project I tried to create a new one. Once it got to the load project/create new screen the same thing happened - everything was slow, hovering over anything clickable just showed a black bar.

The asset discovery said I had around 2,000 assets which is definitely way higher than what I actually have.

I’ve got:
i5-4690k
R9 390
8GB RAM

It’s worked fine before, but the last time I tried was november/december time.

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It’s still loading, the blurry textures are because it hasn’t loaded in the full textures yet

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When I’m at my PC next I’ll load it and leave it and see if that’s the case.

But how come trying to start a new project causes similar issues? Surely there’s not much to load considering a project hasn’t even been opened yet

Edit: So I let my project load for almost 20 minutes but the issue still persists. I don’t think it has to with loading.