How to Record Dead by Daylight with DOR: Official Guide (2026)

Dead by Daylight records automatically once DOR is installed: launch the game and the AI handles the rest. It does not matter whether you queue as a survivor slamming generators or as the killer filling hooks. From the moment DBD starts through Steam until you quit, the lobby and every trial you play run together in one video. This guide covers the full routine in order: what to prepare, how to confirm recording is running, how to save the plays worth rewatching, how to find a specific match inside a long recording, how to build a montage or a short, and how to send it to the people you queued with. You never need to guess when a chase will start, because there is no record button to press before the match. Queue up the way you always do.

• Keep every DBD match from the night in one video, from the first lobby to the results screen of your last trial.
• Save the plays you will rewatch, like a pallet stun, a hook save or a hatch escape, as separate clips the moment they happen.
• Read your SWF group's Discord callouts with AI Voice Notes and jump straight to the moment each line was said.
• Join a five gen chase and an exit gate comeback into one montage with AI Highlight.
• Cut a jumpscare scream into a 9:16 short and send it to your group chat with a single dor.gg link.

Before you record Dead by Daylight: install and recording mode

Dead by Daylight is fairly light on hardware, so getting ready to record takes very little. DOR is a free Windows app and never stamps a watermark on your videos. DBD uses full session recording, which means one video keeps running while you queue, load in and play trial after trial, right up until you close the game. You do not start or stop anything between matches, and swapping between survivor and killer needs no change in settings either. The Steam store lists 50 GB of storage for the game itself, so leave room on the same drive for your recordings too. If you play on a laptop or an older desktop, also read recording games on a low end PC. The table below lists what is worth knowing before your first DBD recording.

Record Dead by Daylight with DOR: step by step

1. 1Install DORDownload DOR and install it. Once setup finishes, DOR waits quietly in the background for the game to start. If your SWF group is meeting on Discord tonight, install it before everyone joins the call.
2. 2Launch Dead by DaylightStart Dead by Daylight from Steam as usual. Recording begins as soon as DOR detects the game, so the title screen and lobby at the very start of the video are expected. The steps are the same whether your first queue is survivor or killer.
3. 3Check that recording is runningWhen the first trial finishes loading and you spawn on the map, glance at the DOR app once to confirm the recording is in progress. If the game is not picked up, follow what to do when the recorder does not detect your game. From then on, nothing needs touching between matches.
4. 4Save the play right after it happensVaulted a window and landed a pallet stun on the killer, or pulled a teammate off the hook just in time? Press the clip save shortcut right after. The last 30 seconds are stored as a separate clip, so you will not scrub through hours of matches later.
5. 5Quit and open My ClipsWatch the results screen of your last trial, then close the game. The full session video and every clip you saved along the way sit together in My Clips in the DOR app. The match where you slipped out through the hatch and the killer round with a 4K are both there.

Find your recordings

Your recordings live in My Clips in the DOR app, also called the library. Each time you open and close DBD becomes one session, and anything you grabbed with the clip save shortcut appears as its own clip. Because a session holds the lobby plus several matches back to back, use two landmarks to find a specific trial: the map loading screen at the start and the results screen at the end. A quick note after each match, such as 'match 3, killer, 4K' or 'match 5, gate escape', makes the search even faster. Once you find the part you want, set a start and an end point to trim it, then export as 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. Leave plenty of lead in on a loop chase, starting from the moment the killer spots you, and keep escapes tight, from just before the gate. The full walkthrough is in how to trim game clips. Like the matches you want to keep for good. When space fills up, older videos you have not liked are cleared first, so your liked first hatch escape stays put.

Save the moments you want to keep

Even though the whole session is recorded, saving key plays as clips on the spot makes them much 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 DBD, good times to press it are right after a pallet stun, right after you unhook a teammate, and right after you find the hatch and drop through it. As the killer, press it right after you hook the last survivor. Long chases that run past several generators tend to lose their opening, so set the clip length to 60 seconds to catch the moment you were first spotted. A quick jumpscare, on the other hand, fits in 15 seconds. To change the shortcut or choose lengths for different plays, see saving the last few seconds instantly.

Find what was said with AI Voice Notes

Playing SWF on Discord means a constant stream of callouts like 'I've got chase, slam those gens', 'I'm on second hook, come get me now' and 'hatch is near the main building'. DOR records game audio and your microphone together, and AI Voice Notes writes what was said onto the recording timeline as text. When you want to see what happened right after someone yelled 'just drop the pallet, don't greed it', find that line in the timeline text and select it to jump straight to the moment. The teammate who promised to go for the unhook and then stayed on a gen will have it on record too. To get your friends' voices into the recording as well, see recording Discord call audio.

Build a montage with AI Highlight

Once the night's queues are done, turn your saved clips into a montage. In the library, check the five gen chase, the hook save, the pallet stun, the hatch escape and the exit gate comeback, then select AI Highlight. DOR joins them into a single video. Put the jumpscare scream at the end and the mood of the whole session comes through. You can also pick only your killer rounds and build a reel of nothing but chases. 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. Put a shake zoom on the frame where the killer pops around the corner and the scream gets twice as funny, and try a punch zoom on the instant a pallet comes down. Add a glitch transition where one trial cuts to the next, tag the friend who screamed with a text line such as their name or 'match 5 escape', and lay background music underneath. An escape exported in 9:16 suits TikTok or YouTube Shorts, while 1:1 fits an Instagram post. For framing tips on vertical video, read recording games for vertical Shorts. When you are done, download the result as 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 their browser without installing anything, so you can paste it into the Discord channel of the group you just escaped with and everyone watches it before the next queue pops. For friends who were not in the match, pick plays that make sense without context, like a 4K or an exit gate comeback. Where to cut escapes, 4Ks and loops is covered in sharing Dead by Daylight gameplay videos, and posting to Discord is explained in sharing clips on Discord.

Dead by Daylight recommended settings and troubleshooting

Dead by Daylight is fairly light, so the default 1080p at 30fps already records smoothly. If you want sharp turns around a loop to look smoother, switch to 60fps. If you play long sessions on a laptop, the 720p/30fps mode keeps the load low. Fullscreen, windowed and borderless windows all record, so keep whatever display mode you already use. If the game itself is short on frames, lower the quality preset and resolution first, then try FSR or Intel XeSS, VSync and the FPS limit one at a time. The direction for each option is laid out in Dead by Daylight best settings. If frames drop only while recording, start with fixing FPS drops while recording. DOR uses GPU hardware encoding, so its effect on your frame rate is small. It has no cheat features and never touches your game files or play data.