How to Record War Thunder with DOR: Official Guide (2026)

War Thunder records automatically once DOR is installed: launch the game and the AI takes care of it. There is no record button and no replay file to dig up, because DOR captures everything from the hangar where you choose a vehicle to the battle results screen. Run ground battles in a tank, switch to a plane for air battles and take a ship out later the same day, and the recording keeps going. The shot that went into side armor in Realistic ground battles and set off the ammo rack, and the dogfight where you clipped a wing at the end of a tail chase, both end up on video. This guide is for anyone recording War Thunder for the first time. It covers getting ready, confirming the recording, saving kills, finding battles by the hangar screen, building a season record video, recording replays, and settings for a demanding game.

• Keep a full day of tanks, planes and ships in one video, from your first sortie out of the hangar to the last results screen.
• Save an ammo rack one shot through the turret ring or a direct hit from a dive bombing run as its own clip.
• Use AI Voice Notes to find squad calls like 'Tiger on the right ridge' and jump straight to that fight.
• Mix ground one shots, air kills and ship torpedo hits into one season record video.
• Record replays you rewatch in free camera too, and use them as material for cinematic edits.

Before you record War Thunder: install and recording mode

All you need to record War Thunder is DOR. It is a free Windows app and never adds a watermark to your videos. War Thunder uses full session recording, so time spent picking vehicles in the hangar, battle loading, the battles themselves and the results screens all go into one video instead of being saved one battle at a time. Long matches like simulator battles keep recording too. Playing for hours between the hangar and the battlefield makes the file grow, though, so if the drive your game is on is tight, point recordings at a roomier drive with changing your recording save location. The table below covers what to check before your first War Thunder recording.

Record War Thunder with DOR: step by step

1. 1Install DORDownload DOR, install it and leave it running. If you trade calls with your squad on voice, confirm DOR has your headset mic selected. Game audio and your mic are recorded together in the same video.
2. 2Launch War Thunder and open the hangarStart War Thunder from Steam and DOR detects the game and starts recording right away. The hangar screen where you pick vehicles and BR is captured too, so there is nothing to do before you press the battle button.
3. 3Check the recording before your first sortieBefore your first battle loads, open the DOR app once and confirm it is recording. If the game is not detected, follow what to do when the recorder does not detect your game. After that, focus on the battlefield.
4. 4Save a clip when the kill cam appearsWhen the kill cam shows an enemy turret flying off, or you bring down an enemy plane at the end of a dogfight, press the clip save shortcut before the battle ends. The last stretch is saved as its own clip, so you never have to scroll through a session full of battles from the start.
5. 5Quit and open My ClipsCheck the final results screen and close the game. The session video and every clip you saved appear together in My Clips in the DOR app. Battles you forgot to clip are all in the session video too.

Find your recordings

Find your recordings in My Clips in the DOR app, also called the library. Each time you open and close War Thunder is grouped into one session, and moments saved with the clip save shortcut appear as separate clips. To find a specific battle in a long session, use the moment you pass the results screen and return to the hangar as the border between battles. Remember which number battle it was, count hangar screens, and you land right at its start. In ground battles, losing your vehicle takes you to the screen for picking your next one, so a narrow escape is right after the hit where that selection screen does not appear. Set a start and an end point to trim the scene, then export it as 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. The full walkthrough is in how to trim game clips. Like the kills you want to keep. When space fills up, older videos you have not liked are cleared first.

Save the moments you want to keep

Even with every battle recorded, kills are much easier to find if you clip them on the spot. Press the clip save shortcut and the last stretch is saved as a clip. The default length is 30 seconds, and you can choose 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds in settings. Each branch suits a different length. A tank one shot where you open the gunner sight and finish it in one round needs only 15 seconds, while an ambush picking off approaching enemies from cover, or a bombing run from the start of the dive to pulling out, fits 30 seconds. A dogfight won after a long turn fight, a ship sunk by torpedoes, or a final capture point that flipped the match should be raised to 45 or 60 seconds so the build up is included. Length settings are covered in saving the last few seconds instantly.

Find what was said with AI Voice Notes

Squad sorties are full of calls like 'Tiger on the right ridge', 'aim for the turret ring, one shot does it', 'B point is empty, go now' and 'I've got one on my tail, get him off me'. DOR records game audio and your microphone together, and AI Voice Notes writes those calls onto the recording timeline as text. After the match, find who first called the tank on the ridge, or when cover arrived after someone asked for help with a tail, and select the line to jump straight to that scene. When you review a loss, you can match the calls against what actually happened on screen, which helps you plan the next sortie. If your mic sounds quiet, check your input device with recording games with mic audio.

Build a montage with AI Highlight

Build a montage of nothing but kills from the clips you saved each battle. In the library, check your clips of an ammo rack one shot, a dogfight tail chase, a dive bombing hit, a surprise capture, a narrow retreat after taking hits and a ship torpedo hit, then select AI Highlight. DOR joins them into one video. Mix ground one shots and air kills for a season record video, or gather clips from a single vehicle for a showcase of how you play it. If you want 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. Trim from the moment your round hits to the turret flying off and add a shake zoom. A punch zoom suits the frame where an enemy plane slides into your sights, and a handheld effect fits the gunner sight view. Add the vehicle name and BR as text, lay a cinematic background track underneath, and you have a War Thunder edit, with glitch transitions between battles. Wide sky and terrain shots look best in 16:9, while single kills for phones fit 9:16; framing tips are in recording games for vertical Shorts. Download the result as an mp4 or share a link straight away.

Share with a dor.gg link

Send trimmed moments as dor.gg links. Whoever opens one plays it right in their browser without the app. When you post a fresh one shot to your squad's Discord or clan chat, add a line with the vehicle and the map. In War Thunder, which vehicle and which map matter as much as the shot itself, and that line lets others try the play in their own vehicle. Which scenes to cut for each branch and how long to make them are covered in sharing War Thunder kill videos, and posting to Discord is covered in sharing clips on Discord.

War Thunder recommended settings and troubleshooting

War Thunder is demanding on the graphics card, so at or above the recommended spec you can keep both the game frame rate and the recording stable. For recording, the default 1080p at 30fps is enough. Choose 60fps for smoother turn fights, or the 720p/30fps mode if your PC is near its limit. DOR uses GPU hardware encoding, so its impact on in game frame rate is small. If you play a replay in the game, DOR records that screen as is, so free camera and missile tracking views, and even replays with the HUD hidden, end up on video. For sessions that run for hours, see recording long gameplay without stutter. If anti cheat blocks game capture, DOR switches to monitor capture. DOR has no cheat features and never touches your game files or play data.