How to Record Civilization VI with DOR: Official Guide (2026)

Civilization VI records automatically once DOR is installed: launch the game and the AI handles the rest. The game where one more turn turned into 4 AM, from your first Settler in the Ancient Era to the victory screen, is kept on video from the moment the game starts until you quit. DOR captures the screen itself, with no replay mod or extra tool, so you can rewatch the turn you beat a rival to the Pyramids, or the turn Gandhi went nuclear. This guide shows you how to record Civ 6 with DOR, a free Windows app, then find only the deciding turns in a recording hundreds of turns long, trim them and send them to friends.

• Keep a whole Civ 6 session in one video, from founding your capital to the final victory turn, with no record button.
• Save game changing moments, like a wonder won by one turn or taking an enemy capital, as separate clips.
• Use AI Voice Notes to keep multiplayer diplomacy as timeline text, so the betrayal has a receipt you can find in one line.
• Combine clips saved at each new era into a chronicle of your empire's rise and fall.
• Rehash the game with your multiplayer friends on Discord using a single dor.gg link.

Before you record Civilization VI: install and recording mode

Civilization VI is not demanding on hardware, but a single game can run for hours and sometimes across several days. DOR is a free Windows app and never adds a watermark. Civ 6 uses full session recording, so one launch to exit becomes one video, and if you save, quit and continue tomorrow, that session becomes a new video. Tips for keeping multi hour recordings steady are in recording long gameplay without stutter. The table below lists what is worth knowing before you record Civ 6.

Record Civilization VI with DOR: step by step

1. 1Install DORDownload DOR and install it. It takes about a minute and costs nothing. Once installed, leave DOR running. If you plan to negotiate with friends in multiplayer, check that your usual headset mic is plugged in.
2. 2Launch Civ 6 and start a gameStart Civilization VI from Steam and set up a new game or load a save. Recording begins as soon as DOR detects the game. In a new game, everything from picking a leader to settling your capital with the first Settler ends up in the recording.
3. 3Confirm the recording is runningWhen the first turn begins, glance at the DOR app 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. From there, end turns as usual, whether you are choosing a tech or sending envoys to a city state.
4. 4Save a clip right after a game changing momentWhen a wonder cinematic finishes or you capture an enemy capital, press the clip save shortcut right away. The moment is saved as its own clip, and if you jot down the turn number at the top of the screen, finding the surrounding turns in the full recording later is easy.
5. 5Save, quit and open My ClipsWhen you are done for the day, save and quit. That session's full video and every clip you saved show up together in My Clips in the DOR app. Continue tomorrow and a new session is added, so a game played over several days builds up as one video per day.

Find your recordings

Your recordings live in My Clips in the DOR app, also called the library. Each launch and exit of Civ 6 becomes one session, and anything you grabbed with the clip save shortcut appears as its own clip. In a turn based game, the best landmark for finding a scene is the turn number on screen. For a game played over several days, a note like 'day two session, turn 120' tells you exactly which video to open. A single cut out moment rarely explains what happened in a turn based game, so take one stretch from the start of the deciding turn until the result shows on screen. For moments with a cinematic, like a wonder completion, keep going until the cinematic ends. With so much map and interface on screen, 16:9 is the easiest to read, though 9:16 and 1:1 are available too. The full walkthrough is in how to trim game clips. Like the videos you want to keep for good, such as the turn that locked in your victory. When space fills up, older videos you have not liked are cleared first, so your liked games stay safe.

Save the moments you want to keep

Even with the whole game recorded, saving the moments that changed it as clips on the spot means you never have to page back through hundreds of turns. 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 Civ 6, good times to press it are right after a wonder cinematic ends, right after you capture an enemy capital, right after you enter a Golden Age, and right after the results screen confirms a Culture or Science victory. Set wonder cinematics to 60 seconds so the whole thing is captured, while a quick moment like a nuke landing is fine at 15. For scenes longer than your clip, use the turn number you noted to trim them from the full recording in the library. Lengths and shortcut settings are covered in saving the last few seconds instantly.

Find what was said with AI Voice Notes

Civ 6 multiplayer is basically a talking game. Deals like 'Let's ally and hit them first', 'What wonder are you building' and 'Stop stealing my city state' go back and forth all game long. DOR records game audio and your mic together, and AI Voice Notes logs that diplomacy onto the recording timeline as text. When the ally who promised peace backstabs you a few turns later, find that promise in the timeline text and select it to open the evidence. The 3 AM 'okay, one more turn then bed' is on record too. If you hear your friends through a Discord call, see recording Discord call audio to make sure that voice chat is captured as well.

Build a montage with AI Highlight

A game several hours long turns into a proper chronicle once you compress it era by era. In the library, check founding the capital, the wonder won by one turn, taking an enemy capital, entering a Golden Age, Gandhi going nuclear and the victory turn, then select AI Highlight. DOR joins them into a montage of your empire's rise and fall, ideal for showing a friend the key turns from an Ancient rush to a locked in Culture victory. To join several days of session videos in order yourself, see how to merge game clips.

Edit in DOR Studio

DOR Studio opens in your browser with nothing to install. Cut out the long stretches of waiting through end turns and merge what is left, and your Civ video stops dragging. Try a shake zoom when a nuke lands and a punch zoom the moment a wonder completes. Caption the turn and era, something like 'Turn 120, Golden Age begins', add background music and you have a chronicle. Glitch transitions suit the jump from one era to the next. For a victory Short, build it in 9:16 and keep the results screen text near the center. Vertical framing tips are in recording games for vertical Shorts. Download the result as an mp4 or share it as a link straight away.

Share with a dor.gg link

Send trimmed turns as dor.gg links. Whoever opens the link plays the video right in the browser without launching the game, so posting the betrayal turn in your multiplayer Discord lets everyone relive it at once. After a game ends, send your rival the preparation they never saw on your side, like the few turns before your win, and the rehash gets a lot more fun. Which turns to keep for each victory type is covered in sharing Civ 6 victory videos, and posting to Discord is covered in sharing clips on Discord.

Civilization VI recommended settings and troubleshooting

Civ 6 is turn based, so the default 1080p at 30fps already captures the map and your cities crisply. Pick 60fps only if you want combat animations or wonder cinematics to look smoother. On a laptop or an older PC, use the 720p/30fps mode for long games, and see recording games on a low end PC for more settings. Fullscreen, windowed and borderless windows all record, so keep whatever display mode you already use. DOR uses GPU hardware encoding, so its effect on your game is small. If file sizes from long games worry you, read reducing game recording file size. DOR has no cheat features and never touches your game files or save data.