Windows throttled my 4K webcam

Dell’s new XPS 14 is an attractive laptop with appealing hardware, including Intel’s new Panther Lake chips and a 4K webcam.

And yet, as I mentioned in my Dell XPS 14 review, the laptop’s webcam did not appear as a 4K camera when I opened the Camera app in Windows. The same happened in OBS.

This problem is due to an issue with Windows’ latest webcam features, and it also points out the many ways in which the software we use with our webcams can degrade their performance.

My 4K webcam can only do 1440p?