Am I doing something wrong with the DevKit?

[TheDonn]

I went through the process of installing the DevKit to try to begin trying to learn how to mod ARK stuff.  It does one action, and then freezes up 100%.  If I open a dino, it pops up (on fire for some reason).  If I close the first thing and open anything else, the program freezes for up to 20 minutes after locking my CPU at 100% usage for the entirety of the twenty minutes.  If I say, add a Featherlight to the open-game world, let it sit to compile all the shaders, and after its done hit "play from here," the program freezes for up to 20 minutes after locking my CPU at 100% usage for the entirety of the twenty minutes.  If I open a _BP of a dino, any dino, the program freezes for up to 20 minutes after locking my CPU at 100% usage for the entirety of the twenty minutes.

What is going on with this thing?  I should mention it is a fresh install, fully fresh install of the DevKit via the Epic Launcher.