Timershot (time lapse) doesn't see Webcam

[Mohonri]

I have a Creative Live Cam Video IM, and I'm trying to take a time-lapse video with it. The Creative software that comes with it appears to be useless--once it takes a single picture, it cannot get any more images from the camera. So I'd like to use the nice, free, Microsoft-provided Timershot. However, Timershot doesn't recognize that there is a webcam available. Yahoo Messenger can see the camera just fine, though, and it shows up in the device manager.

Can anyone give me any pointers? I'm a bit new to this. Thanks!

UPDATE: It appears that there's something wrong with the camera itself--I've tried a couple other programs, and they all exhibit the same symptom: after it takes one picture, it stops working. If I unplug it and reconnect it, I can start again. Of course, that does me no good if I'm trying to capture a time lapse. I'm running with the latest drivers from Creative. Is this thing just a piece of junk, or are the drivers messed up?

 

[Mohonri]

Ok, so I've given up on using the Creative webcam, and am now using a Microsoft LiveView vx1000. I'm currently using TimerShot to capture photos without any difficulty.

However, although the camera has a resolution of 640x480, and can capture video at 30fps at that resolution, it currently only takes pictures through Timershot at 320x240. The bundled LifeCam software can see everything at the full 640x480, but no other programs appear to be able to get that full resolution. Is there a setting in Windows somewhere that limits the resolution that other programs can capture?