How to Record TalesRunner with DOR: Official Guide (2026)

TalesRunner records automatically once DOR is installed: launch the game and the AI handles it. You never press a record button before a run or draw a capture area. By the time you log in and pick a channel, DOR is already recording, and the time you spend in the lobby waiting for the next run plus every race through the fairy tale courses stays in one video until you close the game. Runs are short and you usually chain many of them in a row, so the key is picking out the run you won, or the one you stole with a final dash, from the recording quickly. This guide walks through installing DOR, saving finishes, finding the banter from a run, building a first place reel and faceplant Shorts, sharing a link, and low spec settings and fixes.

• Keep a whole TalesRunner session, every run from the moment you pick a channel to closing the game, in one video.
• Save the moment you dashed past first at the line with the clip save shortcut, keeping just that run.
• Use AI Voice Notes to find the point someone said "Do not use that item on me" and see who started the teasing.
• Combine passing three from last, a clean trap section and an anchor leg team finish into a first place reel.
• Turn a friend's faceplant into a 9:16 Short and send it to your group chat with a dor.gg link.

Before you record TalesRunner: install and recording mode

TalesRunner is fairly light, so recording runs smoothly even at minimum spec. Launch the game on your Windows PC through its launcher and DOR detects it and starts recording 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 run, and the lobby plus every race stay in one video until you close the game. The results screen after each run makes a handy landmark inside that recording. If you race on a laptop or an older desktop, also read recording games on a low end PC. The table below lists what to check before your first recording.

Record TalesRunner 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. If you are racing with friends tonight, get this done before you log in.
2. 2Launch TalesRunnerStart TalesRunner through its launcher and log in. DOR begins recording as soon as it detects the game, so it is normal for the recording to start at the channel select screen.
3. 3Check that recording is runningOnce you are in the lobby for your first run, 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, switch rooms or keep racing without a second thought.
4. 4Save the clip right after the finishWhen you steal first with a dash right before the line, or block a friend in the lead with an item, press the clip save shortcut as soon as you cross. The last 30 seconds are saved as a separate clip, so that run is ready to pull out.
5. 5Close the game and open My ClipsAfter the last results screen, close the game. The full session video and every clip you saved appear together in My Clips in the DOR app. Even the run where you came last is kept for a laugh.

Find your recordings

Your race recordings are gathered in My Clips in the DOR app, also called the library. Each time you open and close TalesRunner becomes one session, and moments you saved during play show up as separate clips. To find a particular run inside a long session, use the rank results screen that appears after each race as your divider. Scrub quickly and results screens alternate with the lobby, so remembering roughly which run it was is enough to get there. First place moments live in the last few dozen seconds near the line, so jump to just before the results screen and back up a little. 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 run where you first beat a speed record. 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

Runs are short, but after many of them it is easy to forget which one was good, so save the runs you want to keep as clips on the spot. 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 TalesRunner, good times to press it are right after a dash past the leader at the line, right after a clean run through a trap section, right after an item stops the leader, and right after you finish as the anchor in a team race. A finish fits in 15 seconds, but a comeback where you passed three runners from last plays better at 45 or 60 seconds so the part where you were behind is included too. 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

Racing with friends comes with teasing and screaming from start to finish. Lines like "Time the jump on those platforms", "Do not use that item on me", "Save your dash for the last corner" and "I tripped, I'm definitely last". DOR records game audio and your microphone together, and AI Voice Notes writes what was said during the run onto the recording timeline as text notes. You can reread who laughed first when someone fell into a trap, right next to that scene. Search the timeline text for "tripped" and select it to jump to the exact moment a friend went down, which also makes building a faceplant reel easy. If your own voice sounds quiet, check your input device with recording games with mic audio.

Build a montage with AI Highlight

To gather only your first place finishes from many runs, use AI Highlight. In the library, check the dash past first at the line, passing three from last, the item that stopped the leader, the clean trap section and the anchor leg team finish, then select AI Highlight. DOR joins them into one TalesRunner reel. Add the friend's trip compilation at the very end and people will watch to the last second. 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 lobby time and add a shake zoom and a text line like "faceplant" on the frame where a friend hits a trap. Try a punch zoom as you cross the finish, a glitch transition between runs and an upbeat background track to keep the pace up. TalesRunner courses are short, so one run fits perfectly in a 9:16 Short, while a first place reel works in 16:9 too. Framing tips for vertical video are in recording games for vertical Shorts. 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 posting a first place link in your racing group chat lets everyone watch while waiting for the next run. A faceplant Short dropped into your guild's Discord server tends to get a reaction too. Tips on picking first place moments out of a recording full of runs are in sending TalesRunner finish videos, and posting to Discord is covered in sharing clips on Discord.

TalesRunner recommended settings and troubleshooting

TalesRunner is fairly light, so the default 1080p at 30fps already captures the fairy tale courses and characters clearly. If you want dash and jump sections to look smoother, switch to 60fps, and if your PC already drops frames in the game itself, 720p/30fps mode is the lightest choice. 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 during a run is small. If the stutter only happens while recording, start with fixing FPS drops while recording. 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.