diff --git a/src/citra_qt/camera/qt_multimedia_camera.cpp b/src/citra_qt/camera/qt_multimedia_camera.cpp
index 5c0b73f2b..1c9d07f76 100644
--- a/src/citra_qt/camera/qt_multimedia_camera.cpp
+++ b/src/citra_qt/camera/qt_multimedia_camera.cpp
@@ -172,14 +172,14 @@ void QtMultimediaCameraHandler::CreateCamera(const std::string& camera_name) {
     }
     settings.setMinimumFrameRate(30);
     settings.setMaximumFrameRate(30);
+    camera->setViewfinder(&camera_surface);
+    camera->load();
     if (camera->supportedViewfinderPixelFormats().isEmpty()) {
         // The gstreamer plugin (used on linux systems) returns an empty list on querying supported
         // viewfinder pixel formats, and will not work without expliciting setting it to some value,
         // so we are defaulting to RGB565 here which should be fairly widely supported.
         settings.setPixelFormat(QVideoFrame::PixelFormat::Format_RGB565);
     }
-    camera->setViewfinder(&camera_surface);
-    camera->load();
 }
 
 void QtMultimediaCameraHandler::StopCamera() {