Since you mentioned teaching and students, did you build this engine version from source? If so, was the project that’s crashing this way migrated from a previous version? Some crashes are expected with 5.4+ at the moment, but this is rather core so something is definitely going wrong."
No, we updated to unreal engine 5.4.4 and suddenly the faculty teaching unreal engine started experiencing excessive crashes. The prior version we had installed (5.4.3) would crash from time to time but with the upgrade to 5.4.4, all of the faculty teaching and working with unreal began experiencing a severe number of crashes. It is happening with students as well.
For one professor, we upgraded his lab to preview 5.5 a few weeks ago and the crashes have ceased for him. We will not push preview unreal preview 5.5 campus wide but we would like a stable product as unreal is a significant part of the gaming development curriculum at SCAD.
Thank you for your help in trying to resolve this issue.