How to Record StarCraft II with DOR: Official Guide (2026)

StarCraft II records automatically once DOR is installed: launch the game and the AI handles it. You never press a record button before queueing for ladder or draw a capture area. The moment you start the game from Battle.net, DOR detects it and records your screen exactly as you play, ladder, co op, arcade and campaign alike, with every game continuing in one video until you close it. SC2 has its own replay files, but showing one to a friend means sending the file and having them open the game too. With DOR, every game is a video from the start, so a single link is all they need. This guide focuses on finding the game you want inside an evening of ladder, and walks through installing DOR, saving moments, finding team game and co op calls, making highlight and build order videos, sharing a link, and settings and fixes.

• Keep StarCraft II play in one video until you close the game, whether it is ladder, co op, arcade or campaign.
• Save the moment blink stalkers turned a fight or your opponent typed gg with the clip save shortcut.
• Use AI Voice Notes to find the point a teammate called "Roach all in incoming, wall off" in a team game.
• Combine a warp gate all in, a baneling connect and a carrier final battle into one ladder highlight.
• Send a game to a practice partner or your clan Discord as a dor.gg link instead of a replay file.

Before you record StarCraft II: install and recording mode

StarCraft II is fairly light, so recording runs smoothly even at minimum spec. DOR detects StarCraft II launched through Battle.net on your Windows PC and records it automatically. DOR is a free Windows app and never puts a watermark on your videos. It uses full session recording: the file is not split after each game, and however many ladder games you play, everything stays in one video until you close the game. The loading screen showing both players before each game and the Victory or Defeat text at the end become handy landmarks inside that recording. 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 StarCraft II 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 first day of a new ladder season.
2. 2Launch StarCraft IIStart StarCraft II from Battle.net. DOR begins recording as soon as it detects the game, so it is normal for the recording to start at the main menu.
3. 3Check that recording is runningBefore your first ladder queue, 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, play co op or ladder as usual.
4. 4Save the clip right after the fightWhen your blink stalkers jump into the middle of the enemy army and turn the fight, or your three pronged harass ends with an opponent typing gg, press the clip save shortcut right after. The last 30 seconds are saved as a separate clip.
5. 5Close the game and open My ClipsFinish your ladder session and close the game. The full session video and every clip you saved appear together in My Clips in the DOR app. Close losses are kept too, so you can review what went wrong.

Find your recordings

Open your match recordings from My Clips in the DOR app, also called the library. Each time you open and close StarCraft II becomes one session, and moments you saved during play show up as separate clips. To find a particular game in a ladder session, treat the loading screen showing both names and races as the start and the Victory or Defeat text as the end. If you jot a quick note like "game 3, ZvP win, blink fight" after each game, you know exactly which loading screen to jump to. Set a start and an end point to trim the part you need, then export as 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. With the minimap and supply in the corners, 16:9 landscape suits SC2 best. Trimming tips are in how to trim game clips. Like the videos you want to keep, such as a promotion win. 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 ladder session recorded, saving highlights 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 SC2, good times to press it are right after a warp gate all in breaks into the main base, right after you win a blink stalker fight, right after banelings connect on a marine ball, and right after your opponent types gg. A baneling connect or a gg fits in 15 seconds, but moments that only make sense from the point the army starts moving, like a marine medivac drop or a carrier final battle, are better at 60 seconds. 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

In team games and co op, one call can decide the game. Lines like "Roach all in incoming, wall off", "Blink's done, going in", "Hitting three bases at once" and "And that's the gg" go back and forth. DOR records game audio and your microphone together, and AI Voice Notes writes what was said onto the recording timeline as text. You can check exactly when someone called the rush, and whether the bunker went up in time, alongside the video. Search the timeline text for "all in" or "blink" and select it to jump straight to that scene. Even in 1v1 ladder, the build notes you mutter to yourself become text that helps when reviewing. If your team talks over a Discord voice channel, check your devices with recording Discord call audio.

Build a montage with AI Highlight

Your best ladder game fits in one video with AI Highlight. In the library, check the warp gate all in landing, the blink stalker fight, the baneling connect, the marine medivac drop and the carrier final battle, then select AI Highlight. DOR joins them into a ladder highlight. It shows the screen you actually controlled, with no observer re edit needed. Put the clip of your opponent typing gg at the end for a clean finish. 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. Trim the first five minutes and put the supply count on screen as text at each production timing, and you have a build order lesson. Highlight fights with a punch zoom on the frame the banelings pop and a shake zoom as carriers arrive, and join games with glitch transitions. Export lessons where the minimap matters in 16:9, and a single blink fight 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, with no replay file to download, no game to open and no app to install. Send a practice partner who plays the same race the whole game with a note like "check my expansion timing around 8 minutes", and send a friend who does not know SC2 just the 30 second fight that decided it. Your clan Discord is a good place for your best games too. Tips on cutting one game at a time from loading screen to gg are in sharing StarCraft II ladder videos, and posting to Discord is covered in sharing clips on Discord.

StarCraft II recommended settings and troubleshooting

StarCraft II is fairly light, so the default 1080p at 30fps already captures units and the minimap clearly. If you want fights with fast moving armies to look smoother, switch to 60fps, and if you ladder on a laptop all evening, the 720p/30fps mode keeps the load low. Fullscreen, windowed and borderless all record, so leave the game's display settings as they are. DOR uses GPU hardware encoding, so its effect on your frame rate is small. For stable recordings of hour long macro games or ladder sessions that run for hours, read recording long gameplay without stutter. Where game capture is blocked, DOR switches to monitor capture, and DOR has no cheat features and never touches your game files or play data.