How to Record Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord with DOR: Official Guide (2026)

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord records automatically once DOR is installed: launch the game and the AI handles it. You never press a record button before a battle or draw a capture area. DOR detects the game and keeps one continuous video covering travel across the Calradian campaign map, sieges where towers roll up to the walls, field battles with hundreds of soldiers and town tournaments. When you close the game, the recording stops. Bannerlord has no built in way to rewatch a battle, which is why so many players go looking for a replay mod; with DOR recording, that charge is on video whenever you want it. This guide focuses on pulling the best moments out of campaigns that run for dozens of hours, and walks through installing DOR, saving moments, finding multiplayer battle calls, editing a war chronicle, sharing a link, and recommended settings and fixes for a GPU heavy game.

• Keep a whole Bannerlord session in one video, from the campaign map to sieges, field battles and tournaments.
• Save the moment a heavy cavalry flank charge breaks the enemy shield wall and rewatch it without a replay mod.
• Use AI Voice Notes to find the point someone called "Cavalry, swing round the flank" in a multiplayer battle.
• Combine a siege tower breach, a town tournament final and capturing an enemy lord into your clan's war chronicle.
• Show your Discord mod community the siege you just pulled off with a single dor.gg link.

Before you record Bannerlord: install and recording mode

DOR records the Windows PC version of Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord that you launch through Steam. DOR is a free Windows app and never puts a watermark on your videos, so even a field battle with hundreds of troops stays clean with no logo on it. It uses full session recording: the file is not split after each battle, and moving between the campaign map and battles stays in one video until you close the game. There is no recording time limit, so campaigns that run for dozens of hours are kept continuously, and modded games are recorded exactly as you see them. Large battles make it GPU heavy, so check the resolution and frame rate row in the table below first. For the general routine of recording PC games, read how to record PC games.

Record Bannerlord 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, and there is nothing else to prepare even on the day you switch mods and start a new campaign.
2. 2Launch BannerlordStart Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord from Steam and load your campaign. DOR begins recording as soon as it detects the game, so it is normal for the recording to pick up from the campaign map after the launcher and loading.
3. 3Check that recording is runningBefore you move your party on the campaign map, 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, chase lords or besiege castles as usual.
4. 4Save the clip right after the chargeWhen your cavalry hits the enemy shield wall and the formation breaks, or a siege tower reaches the wall and your troops pour over, press the clip save shortcut right after. The last 30 seconds are saved as a separate clip, so you can rewatch the moment without a replay mod.
5. 5Close the game and open My ClipsSave and close the game. The full session video and every clip you saved appear together in My Clips in the DOR app. Even a lost siege is kept, so you can see exactly when the line broke.

Find your recordings

Your Bannerlord recordings collect in My Clips in the DOR app, also called the library. Each time you open and close the game becomes one session, and moments you saved during play show up as separate clips. To find a battle inside a long session, use the loading screen when you move from the campaign map into combat and the results screen when the battle ends as landmarks, and you can split the recording battle by battle. Skim quickly through the campaign map travel in between. 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. Like the videos you want to keep, such as the battle on the day you founded your kingdom. 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 battle moments as clips on the spot makes them 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 Bannerlord, good times to press it are right after a siege tower reaches the wall and your troops climb over, right after a heavy cavalry flank charge splits the enemy line, right after you win a town tournament final, and right after you take an enemy lord prisoner. Shield walls colliding head on and siege breaches take a while to play out, so a 60 second clip covers everything from the approach to the impact; quick moments like horse archer harassment fit in 30. 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

Multiplayer battles come with constant commands: "Shield wall up, archers behind", "Cavalry, swing round the flank", "Siege tower's on the wall, climb", "Got the lord, take him prisoner". DOR records game audio and your microphone together, and AI Voice Notes writes what was said onto the recording timeline as text. To see who called the flank and when, or which wall someone wanted the ladders on, search the timeline text for "flank" or "ladder" and select it to jump straight to that scene. Even in a solo campaign, plans you mutter during a battle end up as text you can use to prepare for the next siege. If your own voice sounds quiet, check your input device with recording games with mic audio.

Build a montage with AI Highlight

Building a kingdom turns into a war chronicle with AI Highlight. In the library, check the siege tower breach, the heavy cavalry flank charge, the town tournament final, shield walls colliding and the enemy lord captured, then select AI Highlight. DOR joins them into one video. Check them in order from your first tournament win to your first castle taken and you get a record of how your clan rose. 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. Add a shake zoom right as the horses hit the line and put your kingdom and battle names on screen, and the clip plays like a medieval war film. Try a punch zoom as the gate gives way, a handheld effect for a charge seen from the saddle and a glitch transition between battles. Export field battles with hundreds of troops in 16:9 and a single exchange from the tournament final as a 9:16 Short. Export formats are covered in exporting clips. 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 one link shows your Discord mod community the siege you just pulled off. Send the tournament final to a friend running the same mods in their own campaign. Tips on picking wall breaches and cavalry charges out of a campaign recording are in sharing Bannerlord siege videos, and posting to Discord is covered in sharing clips on Discord.

Bannerlord recommended settings and troubleshooting

Bannerlord often fills the screen with hundreds of soldiers, which makes it GPU heavy, so recommended spec hardware or better keeps both your in game frame rate and the recording stable. Recording starts at 1080p and 30fps by default; switch to 60fps if you want fast moments like cavalry charges to look smoother. DOR uses GPU hardware encoding, so its effect on your frame rate is small. If big battles still strain your PC, drop recording to 720p/30fps mode, and if the stutter only happens while recording, start with fixing FPS drops while recording. If you record campaigns that run for dozens of 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.