# "Audio engine process died" every single time with Dorico 4.3 **URL:** \ **Category:** Dorico\ **Created:** [November 18, 2022, 10:38pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/audio-engine-process-died-every-single-time-with-dorico-4-3/817984 "2022-11-18T22:38:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![dspreadbury](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/dspreadbury/32/328687_2.png) [@dspreadbury](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/dspreadbury)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 10:41pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/audio-engine-process-died-every-single-time-with-dorico-4-3/817984/2 "2022-11-18T22:41:19Z")
I wonder whether it could be a licensing issue? Do you have the most up-to-date version of Steinberg Activation Manager installed? Is your Dorico Pro 4 license correctly activated? If you can’t get Dorico to start all the way up, you could try using the scripts in this thread: > [@Frequently Asked Questions: new users start here](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/frequently-asked-questions-new-users-start-here/115929/5): > > Diagnostic reports When troubleshooting problems with Dorico, you will find it helpful to upload a set of diagnostics generated by Dorico, which you can create by choosing Help \> Create Diagnostic Report. If you are in the unfortunate situation that you cannot launch Dorico, and it is crashing or hanging during start-up, then you will not be able to use the built-in function to generate diagnostics. In that case, you can download this zip file: [creatediagnosticscripts.zip](https://forums.steinberg.net/uploads/short-url/zzdTPNpGh6EtUsF2QQMayriZ60b.zip) (1.3 KB) This archi… to generate an ersatz diagnostics report that you can upload here, and we can then take a look and see if we can figure out what’s going on. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/audio-engine-process-died-every-single-time-with-dorico-4-3/817984)._