Virtual Camera Works, but does not show up for other applications

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I have read several guides and have my scene and camera working within OBS. The OBS Virtual Camera shows up within OBS as an available camera. However, it does not show up in any other software from zoom to the Windows Camera App. I found this guide and have checked or done everything recommended. I even reinstalled the plugin from the .bat file. I am running OBS with admin privileges just in case as well.

There has to be something I am missing. I am on Windows 11. OBS accesses my webcam just fine.

Here is the guide I have used and I am good based on this guide.
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Any suggestions?
 
Update. I downloaded NVidia Broadcast just to try it out. The OBS Virtial Camera does show up in that application and works. But it still does not show up in my Windows Camera App, Demo Creator, or PPT, or any other app that uses a camera.
 
What kind of architecture are you running on? I'm having a similar issue with my Surface and have seen some folks say there is an issue with OBS virtual camera on ARM architecture. If you're not sure you can open a command prompt and type:
echo %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%

If the result has ARM in it, it may be related. (Keep in mind I'm still troubleshooting this on my own. I'm not sure if there is an official known issue from OBS.
 
I'm having the same issues on Surface Pro 11 (AMD-based). It seems there is no cure for it for now, and not a word from either OBS or Zoom.
 
Same problem. Wasted many, many hours and even spoke with a sales specialist from Snapdragon at a Best Buy who popped open his laptop and had the same problem.
 
Hi guys, early 2026 here and if this problem wasn't resolved for you. I think I found a fix(?) or something that might worth attention.

Here is my story, if you don't want to, just skip this whole paragraph and go down to "instructions", so anyways, I stumbled across this forum on my research since I have the same problem when I try to use virtual camera on zoom, the comment from KrayKrayPapa hinted that it has something to do with the architecture. And I found my solution as I went down this direction.

The problem was happening for me because my machine is ARM64, which OBS does have different versions of virtual camera for emulated x64 (AMD) and native ARM64, this article shows me: https://obsproject.com/kb/windows-on-arm#virtual-camera

The moment I realized this, I figured I need the right version of Zoom and I need to enable the ARM version of virtual camera. So to test it out, I grabbed the ARM64 version from Zoom's website, and followed the instructions on the said page after I downloaded the "OBS-Studio-32.0.4-Windows-arm64.zip" for the corresponding dll needed (since I can't find obs-virtualcam-module-arm64.dll in the install, probably applies to everyone).

Restart, and it worked! Now Zoom detects and uses OBS virtual camera just like how I used it comfortably on my AMD64 PC.

Ok, here's the instructions:
1. Download the corresponding arm64.zip pack from OBS' Github page
2. in the .zip, navigate to "data\obs-plugins\win-dshow\", copy and paste "obs-virtualcam-module-arm64.dll" to your obs installation's "data\obs-plugins\win-dshow\"
3. Following the instructions on "https://obsproject.com/kb/windows-on-arm#virtual-camera",
- run "regsvr32.exe /i /u obs-virtualcam-module64.dll"
- then run "regsvr32.exe /i /s obs-virtualcam-module-arm64.dll"
4. Restart just to make sure everything is loaded, if your target application has a native x64 version like Zoom, install and use that version.
5. There you go, your target application hopefully works with OBS virtual camera.

(So far this "modification" method on OBS for ARM64 systems, I only tested it worked for Zoom(ARM version) and MSTeams (x64 emulated, so if you'd like to test this on other applications and have results, feel free to share)

Bonus:
While on my way to trying to make Zoom work, I discovered a workaround application for ARM64 PCs called "Camo Studio", it works like virtual camera, but not as detailed and flexible, but if you are desperate, this may be a solution since it supports no watermark, window capture, pictures and another webcam input source. You can drag the elements around like a scenario so I'd say it's a fair workaround solution.
 
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