How to Record Baldur's Gate 3 with DOR: Official Guide (2026)

Baldur's Gate 3 records automatically once DOR is installed: launch the game and the AI handles it. Whether you start in the character creator or load a save, DOR detects the game as soon as it is on screen and keeps one continuous video covering the Nautiloid escape, the goblin camp fight, and every companion conversation and cutscene. When you quit, the recording ends. You never press a record button or draw a capture area. BG3 is full of fights where you spend minutes on a single turn and choices you may never see again, so the real work is pulling a natural 20 or a romance scene out of a long recording quickly. This guide walks through installing DOR, saving rolls, finding co op party chat, editing campaign highlights, sharing a link, and recommended settings and fixes for a GPU heavy game.

• Keep a whole BG3 session in one video, from the character creator to quitting, including long turns and cutscenes.
• Save the moment a natural 20 lands on Persuasion or you shove a boss off a cliff with the clip save shortcut.
• Use AI Voice Notes to find who in your four player party said "They're all next to the barrels, Fireball".
• Combine the Nautiloid escape, the goblin camp barrel explosion and a companion romance scene into a reel only your campaign could make.
• Turn a natural 1 disaster into a 9:16 meme and send it to your party chat with a dor.gg link.

Before you record Baldur's Gate 3: install and recording mode

DOR records the Windows PC version of Baldur's Gate 3 that you launch through Steam. DOR is a free Windows app and never puts a watermark on your videos, so nothing covers the numbers when you post a dice roll. It uses full session recording: changing acts or regions does not split the file, and everything stays in one video until you quit. DOR also records exactly what is on screen when you play with mods loaded through a mod manager. To see how detection and recording work in general, read how DOR records games automatically. The table below covers what to check before your first recording.

Record Baldur's Gate 3 with DOR: step by step

1. 1Install DORDownload and install DOR. It takes about a minute and is free. Leave DOR running once it is installed. If your party has a co op campaign night planned, get this done before you log in.
2. 2Launch Baldur's Gate 3Start Baldur's Gate 3 from Steam. DOR begins recording as soon as it detects the game, so on a new campaign it is normal for the recording to start at the character creator.
3. 3Check that recording is runningWhen your save loads and the party appears on screen, glance at the DOR app once to confirm recording is in progress. If the game is not picked up, follow what to do when the recorder does not detect your game. After that, take as long as you like on each turn and the recording keeps going.
4. 4Save the clip right after the rollWhen the d20 stops on 20 for a Persuasion check, or a Fireball sets off the oil barrels in the goblin camp, press the clip save shortcut as soon as the result is on screen. The last 30 seconds are saved as a separate clip.
5. 5Quit and open My ClipsSave and quit the game. The full session video and every clip you saved appear together in My Clips in the DOR app. Choice scenes you may never see again are kept in the recording as they happened.

Find your recordings

Your campaign recordings are in My Clips in the DOR app, also called the library. Each time you open and close Baldur's Gate 3 becomes one session, and moments you saved during play show up as separate clips. To find a moment inside a long session, use three landmarks: the loading screen when you travel between regions, the turn order appearing as combat starts, and resting at camp. Companion romance scenes usually play after a camp rest, so start looking around there. Set a start and an end point to trim the part you need, then export as 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. Trimming tips are in how to trim game clips, and if you want campaign recordings on another drive, see changing the recording save location. Like the videos you want to keep for good, such as a romance scene. When space fills up, older videos you have not liked are cleared first, so liked ones stay put.

Save the moments you want to keep

Even with the whole campaign recorded, saving a moment as a clip on the spot makes it far easier to find. Press the clip save shortcut and the last stretch of gameplay is saved as a clip. The default length is 30 seconds, and you can choose 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds in settings. In BG3, good times to press it are right after a natural 20 on a Persuasion check, right after you take the high ground and shove a boss off a cliff, right after an oil barrel explosion wipes out a group in one turn, and right after a natural 1 turns into a disaster. A dice roll fits in 15 seconds, but long scenes like a companion romance or the Nautiloid escape are better at 60 seconds so they are captured to the end. To pick the right length for each kind of moment, see saving the last few seconds instantly.

Find what was said with AI Voice Notes

With a four player party, every turn is a planning meeting. Lines like "I need a 15 on Persuasion, give me Inspiration", "They're all next to the barrels, Fireball", "Astarion won't like that option" and "Take the high ground and shove them off" go back and forth. DOR records game audio and your microphone together, and AI Voice Notes writes your party's table talk onto the recording timeline like a script. You can settle who suggested lighting the oil barrels, and whether the party got burned too, with both footage and dialogue. Search the timeline text for "Fireball" and select it to jump straight to that turn. If your party meets in a Discord voice channel, check your device settings with recording Discord call audio.

Build a montage with AI Highlight

The moments your dice made turn into a reel only your campaign could produce with AI Highlight. In the library, check the Nautiloid crash escape, a natural 20 on Persuasion, the goblin camp barrel explosion, shoving a boss off a cliff and that natural 1 disaster, then select AI Highlight. DOR joins them into one video. Make one at the end of each act for a campaign log, or gather only romance scenes for a story collection for each companion. If you would rather set the clip order yourself, see how to merge game clips.

Edit in DOR Studio

DOR Studio opens in your browser with nothing to install. Cut the walking and turn waiting, add a punch zoom on the frame where the d20 stops, and put the roll result on screen in big text for a ready made meme. Try a shake zoom when the barrels go up and a glitch transition between a cutscene and combat. Export natural 20 memes as 9:16 Shorts and cutscenes or full fights in 16:9. Framing tips for vertical video are in recording games for vertical Shorts. When you are done, download an mp4 or share it as a link straight away.

Share with a dor.gg link

Send trimmed moments as dor.gg links. Whoever opens the link plays the video right in the browser without installing anything, so sending a natural 20 to your campaign group on Discord means everyone can rewatch it before the next session. If you are playing solo, send a romance scene to a friend romancing the same companion and compare notes. Tips on cutting rolls and one turn combos to send are in sharing BG3 dice roll videos, and posting to Discord is covered in sharing clips on Discord.

Baldur's Gate 3 recommended settings and troubleshooting

Baldur's Gate 3 has large regions and lots of spell effects, which makes it GPU heavy, so recommended spec hardware or better keeps both your in game frame rate and the recording stable. Recording runs at 1080p and 30fps by default. Turn based combat looks fine at 30fps, but switch to 60fps if you want cutscenes and Fireball effects to look smoother. DOR uses GPU hardware encoding, so its effect on your frame rate is small. If your PC still struggles, drop recording to 720p/30fps mode, and if the stutter only happens while recording, start with fixing FPS drops while recording. For campaign sessions that run for hours, also see recording long gameplay without stutter. Fullscreen, windowed and borderless all record, and where game capture is blocked, DOR switches to monitor capture. DOR has no cheat features and never touches your game files or save data.