How to Record Escape from Tarkov with DOR: Official Guide (2026)

Escape from Tarkov records automatically once DOR is installed: launch the game and the AI handles the rest. From the moment Tarkov starts until you quit, gearing up in the stash, the raid loading screen, the raid itself and the post raid results all run together in one video. When you want to know what actually killed you, you never have to remember whether you hit record. This guide walks through the full routine in order: getting ready, confirming the recording, saving fights and extracts, finding one raid inside a long recording, building highlights, and sending links to your squad.

• Keep the whole day of raids in one video, from stash management to the last post raid results screen.
• Save the moments you will rewatch, like a Customs dorms fight or a full kit extract, as clips on the spot.
• Find squad callouts like 'steps on dorms third floor' with AI Voice Notes and jump to that moment.
• Join boss kills and extracts from the whole wipe into a reel of raids you survived with AI Highlight.
• Trim a sketchy death and post the dor.gg link in Discord so your squad can review it with you.

Before you record Escape from Tarkov: install and recording mode

Tarkov is GPU heavy, so a PC at the recommended spec or above keeps both in game frame rate and recording stable. DOR is a free Windows app and never adds a watermark. Tarkov uses full session recording, which means your hideout, the raid queue and every raid run together in one video until you close the game, and you never start a recording per raid. Raids are long and most players run several a day, so recordings get long too. For steady multi hour recordings, see recording long gameplay without stutter. The table below covers what to check before your first recording.

Record Escape from Tarkov with DOR: step by step

1. 1Install DORDownload DOR and install it. Once setup finishes, DOR waits in the background for the game to start. If you want your first raid after a wipe on record, install it before then.
2. 2Launch Escape from TarkovStart Tarkov from Steam as usual. Recording begins as soon as DOR detects the game, so the hideout and stash screens at the start of the video are expected.
3. 3Check that recording is runningBefore the first raid loading screen appears, 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. After that, nothing needs touching between raids.
4. 4Save fights and extracts right awayCleared a PMC on the dorms stairs, or stepped into the extract with a full bag? Press the clip save shortcut right after. The last 30 seconds are stored as a separate clip, so you never scrub through a 40 minute raid from the start.
5. 5Quit and open My ClipsClose Tarkov and the whole day lands in My Clips as one video, with the clips you saved listed alongside. Raids you ran as a Scav are in the same video too.

Find your recordings

Your recordings collect in My Clips in the DOR app, also called the library. Each time you open and close Tarkov becomes one session, and anything you grabbed with the clip save shortcut appears as its own clip. Inside a session, each raid sits between the raid loading screen and the post raid results screen, so use those two screens to count your way to the raid you want. A one line note after each raid, like 'third raid, extracted' or 'fifth raid, died', makes it faster still. Within a raid, the first gunshot breaking the silence is usually where your moment starts. Set a start and an end point to trim, then export as 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. Small distant silhouettes matter in Tarkov, so keep review clips in 16:9. The walkthrough is in how to trim game clips. Like the videos you want to keep, such as a full kit extract. When space fills up, older videos you have not liked are cleared first.

Save the moments you want to keep

Tarkov fights are decided in seconds and most of a raid is quiet movement, so pressing the clip save shortcut right after every fight is the habit that pays off most. The default length is the last 30 seconds, and you can choose 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds in settings. Set 60 seconds for a Customs dorms fight or a firefight right at the extract so the footsteps before the first shot are included. A single long shot on Woods fits in 15 seconds. A drawn out fight like taking down Reshala and his guards is worth saving at 60 seconds the moment it ends, then trimming the rest generously from the session video. To change the shortcut or length, see saving the last few seconds instantly.

Find what was said with AI Voice Notes

In a squad, callouts like 'steps on dorms third floor', 'boss guards, three of them, back off' and 'bag's full, heading to extract' decide how the raid goes. DOR records game audio and your microphone together, and AI Voice Notes writes the conversation onto the recording timeline as text. To rewatch the moment someone asked 'what ammo did I just die to', select that line in the timeline and you land right there. Where the squad changed its extract route is kept as text too, which helps plan the next raid. To capture your squadmates' voices as well, see recording Discord call audio.

Build a montage with AI Highlight

If your clips from the wipe are scattered, pull them together with AI Highlight. In the library, check the Customs dorms fight, Reshala down, the Reserve bunker ambush, the Woods long shot, the fight at the extract and the full kit extract, then select AI Highlight to get one video of only the raids you made it out of. You can also split them by map, with a Customs cut and a Reserve cut. To set the order yourself, see how to merge game clips.

Edit in DOR Studio

DOR Studio opens in your browser with nothing to install. Keep only the 30 seconds of shooting from a 40 minute raid, add a punch zoom on the shots and a shake zoom right after you take a hit. Put the map name and a line like 'full kit extract' on the extract scene with background music, and bridge raids with a glitch transition. Export 16:9 for YouTube and 9:16 for Shorts. Saving an mp4 is covered in exporting clips, or share the result as a link straight away.

Share with a dor.gg link

Send trimmed moments as dor.gg links. Whoever opens the link watches in a browser without the app, so posting a questionable death in your squad's Discord gets you a verdict fast. For a review clip, the moment you drop is not enough. Trim from one to two minutes before the death so the start of your last move and the footsteps you heard are included. A full kit extract brag, on the other hand, only needs the last 30 seconds to a minute. Squadmates from the same raid can open each other's links side by side to compare the same fight from different views. Clip lengths and cues for each moment are in sending Tarkov raid clips to friends.

Escape from Tarkov recommended settings and troubleshooting

Tarkov puts a heavy load on the GPU, so start recording at the default 1080p and 30fps and move to 60fps only when your in game frame rate has headroom. If frames are still short, drop to the 720p/30fps mode. DOR uses GPU hardware encoding, so its effect on frame rate is small. Fullscreen, windowed and borderless windows all record, and if anti cheat blocks game capture, DOR records through monitor capture. Recording captures game audio as it is and never changes your in game sound settings, so footstep play is unaffected. If frames drop only while recording, start with fixing FPS drops while recording. DOR has no cheat features and never touches game files or play data.