Before searching, test the webcam:

[DEVICE MESSAGE] You are not the first to find us. Do not slide beyond the present. They will see you too.

But the violet LED kept pulsing.

The E-20MP uses MJPEG compression by default. To lower CPU usage:

Marcus’s hands trembled. He unplugged the camera. Plugged it back in. He pointed it at himself. The next image that decoded showed him—but ten years younger, with a fuller head of hair, wearing a t-shirt he’d thrown away in 2015, sitting in front of a monitor that was a CRT. He was grinning. He didn’t remember grinning like that.

Keep in mind that the specific features, settings, and issues may vary depending on the operating system, driver version, and webcam hardware.

often involves using generic drivers from suppliers like Sonix, as noted in the ENTER USB 2.0 PC CAMERA Driver for INTEL search, which indicates a Device ID of USB\VID_0C45&PID_613C .