Play Crusader Kings III long enough and you end up with stories you want to tell a friend: the heir you barely protected finally taking the throne, a single marriage that turned a neighboring kingdom into an ally, or the window announcing that a scheme you nursed for years finally worked. Explaining it in words means walking through family trees and title claims first, but a video gets it across at once. This guide covers one method only: record Crusader Kings III with DOR, find that moment inside a long campaign recording, trim it, and send it as a dor.gg link. Because this is a strategy game made mostly of maps and windows, finding and cutting scenes works differently than in an action game, so that difference is the focus here.
Record the whole campaign, pull out one event
DOR saves Crusader Kings III as a whole-session recording. From loading your save after launch until you quit, everything goes into one video: the time spent paused studying the map and the time spent fast-forwarding through the years. DOR does not detect successions or successful schemes to make separate clips, so you find each scene in the recording and cut it out with trimming. Sessions in this game easily stretch for hours, so it helps to review recording long gameplay without stutter first to keep long recordings stable to the end. Also remember that recording stops automatically when free space on the drive drops below 20GB.
From one dynasty moment to a friend's screen
- 1Load your save with DOR runningDOR is a free Windows app that detects supported games when they launch and starts recording automatically. If you play while on a call with a friend, plug in your mic. Game sound and your voice end up in the same video, so you will not need to explain later why you made each decision.
- 2Note the clock and in-game year when an event window appearsA strategy game recording shows similar map screens for hours. When an important event window pops up or a scheme resolves, jot down both the taskbar clock and the in-game date at the top of the screen. Later you can jump straight to that point in the library.
- 3Use paused stretches to judge where a scene begins and endsCrusader Kings III involves long stretches of reading windows while paused. When you scrub through the recording, a section where the screen sits still is usually you weighing a big decision, and the end of that stretch is where the decision was made. Start the clip just before the decision rather than including all the deliberation.
- 4Keep successions together from death notice to new rulerHeir succession is the classic story in this game. Cut from the notice that your ruler has died through the switch to the heir and the map showing how the realm was divided, and a friend can follow what happened without any background.
- 5Pick a ratio in trimming and create the linkSet the start and end points in the library's trimming tool. You need to read window text and the map in this game, so 16:9 is the right default; even for a friend watching on a phone, 16:9 beats 9:16, which shrinks the text. When trimming finishes, a dor.gg link is created.
- 6Add one line about your houseA bare link leaves your friend guessing who is who. Add one line of context, such as which generation of ruler this is or who married whom, and even a short video tells the story. If the friend is in the same campaign, ask what the next generation should go after to keep the conversation going.
Scenes worth sending at each campaign stage
| Campaign stage | Moment to find in the recording | Suggested length |
|---|---|---|
| Right after the start | Your chosen house and lands shown on the map | 20 to 30 seconds |
| Marriage and alliance | The window where a wedding changes relations with a neighbor | About 30 seconds |
| Scheme in progress | The result window saying a murder or abduction scheme succeeded | 15 to 30 seconds |
| War | Armies clashing on the map and victory being confirmed | About 1 minute |
| Heir succession | The ruler dying and play passing to the heir | 30 to 45 seconds |
| Coronation | Creating an imperial title to raise a kingdom into an empire | About 30 seconds |
Checks before sending a CK3 moment
- The text in the event or result window is large enough to read in the video.
- Long paused stretches of deliberation are cut, and the clip starts just before the decision.
- Succession clips include the moment play passes to the new ruler.
- You added one line explaining your house and titles along with the link.
- Before a long campaign session, you confirmed the drive has well over 20GB free.
- You opened the link once to make sure the map and windows look sharp.
How DOR keeps your Crusader Kings III campaigns
DOR is a free Windows desktop app. Since the October 2026 app update, Crusader Kings III is a supported game: when you launch it, DOR detects it automatically and records the whole session as one mp4 until you quit. You can turn whole-session recording on or off per game in settings, and a confirmation window appears when you turn it off. Trim a section in the app library to make a dor.gg link, and the person you send it to opens the video in a browser with nothing to install. If you want to tie several scenes, such as a marriage, a war, and a succession, into one family chronicle, the DOR Studio described in merging game clips lets you join videos and lay a short line of text over each scene. When campaign recordings from several evenings pile up and space runs short, see fixing low disk space for game recordings for cleanup tips.
