View Full Version : STREAMATE - Venting, Complaining, Discussing site issues
victoriavein
11-19-2016, 07:38 AM
Is SM in a different country or something? I'm in the US, central time but everything is a day ahead on this site. I worked Monday-and it says I worked Tuesday-for example. It has my schedule as a day ahead than what I set it to. Kind of annoying
^^^ SM uses GMT that's why, the site time is 5-6 hrs ahead than ur time in central US, says on the site -> stats, payment page - including in ur chat room if u look at the clock and hoover over it, it'll display local time & site time (GMT).
kiki399
11-19-2016, 08:00 AM
You get used to it. I'm on the east coast, my new day starts 8pm my time.
victoriavein
11-19-2016, 09:31 AM
Ok thanks ladies. Just didn't know if it was them or if I had some setting wrong. Appreciate
imelly21
11-20-2016, 07:03 AM
while broadcasting whats up with the CPU jumping from 30ish % to 70ish % without me touching a thing? Sometimes I notice when I talk, CPU jumps up ,could that be a reason?
Selenasecret
11-20-2016, 11:21 AM
Use version 14. It runs at 20% on my cpu. Version 16 runs at 40% on my cpu. I am not willing to give Streamate 40% of my cpu for crickets and guys who dont speak. I dont believe anyone who doesnt have a card on file should have 720p and mp3 stereo sound. Why should they? They dont pay for it. Streamate and we do. We we do for it all with the 65% they take
I use a fx8350 running at 5ghz not even video editing uses 40% of the cpu even when running netflix and correl paintshop pro and chatting to friends on Skype. Running osb recording 1080p
Just shocking how much Streamate slid down in the past 4 months. And I have only been camming 9 months.
Dorothea
11-20-2016, 01:21 PM
Do any of you type on streamate instead of talk and do you get customers that way? I just moved to new place and walls are incredibly thin I hear everything next door...I share only one wall with neighbors but is a problem.
SoloDesire
11-20-2016, 02:05 PM
Do any of you type on streamate instead of talk and do you get customers that way? I just moved to new place and walls are incredibly thin I hear everything next door...I share only one wall with neighbors but is a problem.
I type in free chat and use sound only in paid chat. So it cuts back on how much talking you have to do and you can keep it pretty quiet in private if you need to. I do just fine keeping it muted in free chat though. Sometimes I think I actually do better this way because it keeps me from getting snarky in free chat since I have to think about what I'm saying as I type it lol.
Dorothea
11-20-2016, 03:12 PM
Thank you.
selerah
11-20-2016, 03:59 PM
I wish I could get more than an automated response from support! :ziplip: Its frustrating when I wait two days for a response, and then it seems like an automated response that was generated based on keywords I probably used. :pickle::flamed:
abbey20
11-20-2016, 10:16 PM
does somebody know what's the "perfect" upload velocity for SM?
Selenasecret
11-20-2016, 10:24 PM
2100kbps 2.1Mbps or 0.25mb sec. Its also the sweetspot for twitch gamers only they dont throw no 40% cpu at it.
Streamate aint worth no 40% cpu.
abbey20
11-20-2016, 10:38 PM
2.1? right now mine is like 0.5 ·.·"
I have been wanting to change my shitty adsl to a decent optical fiber and i think this is the moment.
Blovely
11-20-2016, 11:27 PM
Well, there's at least one thing SM has accomplished in terms of making the site more "mobile friendly" so far... people can use actual emojis now. Anyone else notice the influx of emojis in their chats lately?
I've started using eggplants and water drop emojis to hustle people into private. Haha.
I did notice that a user used one. But I didn't have any available on my end except for the regular one's that have always been there. By any chance did they add a kiss emoji?
PhatGirlDynomite!!!
11-20-2016, 11:44 PM
Well, there's at least one thing SM has accomplished in terms of making the site more "mobile friendly" so far... people can use actual emojis now. Anyone else notice the influx of emojis in their chats lately?
I've started using eggplants and water drop emojis to hustle people into private. Haha.
I got a bunch of the 100 emojis the other day. That was kinda cool. Better if it had been 100 gold but whatevs
Chellyinparadise
11-21-2016, 12:06 AM
Lol i had some guy get pissed off at me and give me the middle finger emoji. I have seen alot of guys using them on sm.
Blovely
11-21-2016, 12:09 AM
Lol i had some guy get pissed off at me and give me the middle finger emoji. I have seen alot of guys using them on sm.
OMG. I don't think I'd even be offended if a dude did that. I probably would've started laughing uncontrollable.
PhatGirlDynomite!!!
11-21-2016, 12:10 AM
Lol i had some guy get pissed off at me and give me the middle finger emoji. I have seen alot of guys using them on sm.
Stawp playin! :) This is what we have to look forward to now? I'm gonna be so mad if someone calls me a turd. I know its coming.
PhatGirlDynomite!!!
11-21-2016, 12:17 AM
Now y'all got me thinking. I wonder if Kevmoji (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snaps.kevmoji&hl=en)'s will work?
^^^ many will show us their cocks, i imagine them using the backside camera and pointing it to their cocks hahaaa
Chellyinparadise
11-21-2016, 12:48 AM
OMG. I don't think I'd even be offended if a dude did that. I probably would've started laughing uncontrollable.
I did i couldnt stop laughing which pissed him off more. HAHA
Chellyinparadise
11-21-2016, 12:50 AM
Stawp playin! :) This is what we have to look forward to now? I'm gonna be so mad if someone calls me a turd. I know its coming.
Lol yea i guess so cause he did i just hope they dont start sending dick emojis haha
Chellyinparadise
11-21-2016, 12:58 AM
^^^ many will show us their cocks, i imagine them using the backside camera and pointing it to their cocks hahaaa
Yea i could see them trying to do it and dropping it or something then i start laughing could ruin it for them. haha
alex00
11-21-2016, 10:49 AM
is anyone having customers saying they see a black screen this morning? I looked at a few girls rooms and see a black screen also but other rooms are fine...
selerah
11-21-2016, 02:58 PM
I've been having people complain that my audio and video are out of sync. Everything seems to be streaming fine on my end. I'm using SMBroadcast Encoder, but its been pulling my camera in and out of focus as well, which can be frustrating because it seems like it happens as soon as I'm pulled into pvt, the screen will become blurred and the camera won't focus at times.
JaneBurgess
11-21-2016, 08:06 PM
I cant believe they are having a three day contest. Good luck ladies, they dont give a fuck about issues or performers
Promised
11-21-2016, 09:18 PM
Yes! This happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I just emailed support explaining what happened and let them know we were communicating through the whole show so I knew he was still connected, I didn't have any screenshots to send. It was an 8 minute show and I had only been paid for 3 minutes. They wrote me back and apologized and credited me for the rest of the show (it will show under "adjustments"). It went on the following weeks paycheck.
I tried writing them, but they told me it recorded as 46 seconds like I didn't already know that? You got lucky, guess next time I need a screen shot, but that wouldn't help anyway they didn't even ask if I had one and I told them we were communicating the whole time. Guess if guy was a fast typer they still could've said a page full in 46 seconds :(
Sunnylexie
11-21-2016, 10:24 PM
What do you do when your site isn't working for Safari users? Riiight, you run a model contest. Way to go Streamate.
Why not let us just work rather than handicapping us and then running paralympiades?
Sunnylexie
11-21-2016, 10:46 PM
Sorry for the assholeish picture - it's the most accurate depiction of SM nowadays I could find.
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Cutie101
11-22-2016, 12:41 AM
OR:
Streamate staff reaction, when we complain about technical issues, low percetage and contests:
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Horny
11-22-2016, 04:04 AM
I have the out of cync issue too sadly no one told me till I had been on hours guess that explains the terrible day yesterday
AnotherLily
11-22-2016, 04:59 AM
Who's ready for a 3 day contest ladies?!
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Horny
11-22-2016, 05:12 AM
Today I went to the Dentist over camming I wasn't feeling the contest at all. Tomorrow is the big effort day it has to be I can't get back on again till Monday I hope the cam gods will be smiling on me more than the last week or so!
xCamLovex
11-22-2016, 09:41 AM
Sorry for the assholeish picture - it's the most accurate depiction of SM nowadays I could find.
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This is funny as hell. Streamate lost major momentum in 2k16. Tech issues are one thing but they haven't handled themselves well at all. They've proven how much they do not care about models and just pass the buck to the performers to deal with problems that are on their end.
Lolaki
11-22-2016, 09:44 AM
Yes it happened to me today. Guy returned 3 times trying to take me exclusive, instead of that system kicked him out thus all the other guests in free chat :/
This morning I had at least 3 exclusives that didn't start and the guy got kicked and didn't return! Has anyone else had this problem? I accepted the exclusive and then it boots everyone out off my room, but I'm still in free chat! :(
Also I think a block Exclusive was somehow turned into a block Premium, which I didn't think I offered. It was super annoying to have the peepers PLUS I got paid for a discounted premium!
Holly_xoxo
11-22-2016, 10:28 AM
I have the out of cync issue too sadly no one told me till I had been on hours guess that explains the terrible day yesterday
This is what concerns me. I just can't see how I went from making pretty good money to suddenly making less than 5$ for a 4 hour shift ( this has happened more than once in the last month) Alot of guys won't tell you when something is off with your stream or they're being kicked out so I have no way of knowing. My last week of work on SM averaged out to 3 dollars an hour.
I'm starting to think SM doesn't want me to work on the site.
Sunnylexie
11-22-2016, 12:57 PM
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Holly_xoxo
11-22-2016, 01:28 PM
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I wish I could like that more than once...Lol
KatyBoleyn
11-22-2016, 02:02 PM
I wish I could like that more than once...Lol
That was actually the discussion for our own holiday event. Something about rewarding only the top earners with even more money didn't seem right. I think we came up with a decent compromise solution though :)
Selenasecret
11-22-2016, 02:17 PM
Have you got deepthought running in the basement to run your cam from with a plutonium rod power supply and special dark fibre lines that use quantum twinning connecting you direct to seattle.
No
Thats your problem it was tested on a pc that noone has access to as hey your all poor and we coin it in. So unless you have a computer that took a billions years to give the answer of 42 we just dont have to help you.
Peasant scum
But we do have a 3 day comp that just gets everyone online in the hope the smfairy might tip you $100 but only let you keep $35
Lol. I would just love it if every camgirl took the same day off. Watch how fast issues would be solved then.
Sally Says
11-22-2016, 03:45 PM
It will only be 7 and a half million years acrually
Sunnylexie
11-22-2016, 10:24 PM
Have you got deepthought running in the basement to run your cam from with a plutonium rod power supply and special dark fibre lines that use quantum twinning connecting you direct to seattle.
No
Thats your problem it was tested on a pc that noone has access to as hey your all poor and we coin it in. So unless you have a computer that took a billions years to give the answer of 42 we just dont have to help you.
Peasant scum
But we do have a 3 day comp that just gets everyone online in the hope the smfairy might tip you $100 but only let you keep $35
Lol. I would just love it if every camgirl took the same day off. Watch how fast issues would be solved then.
Lol that's the argument I had with them like two years ago when I had a top-notch (back then) gaming computer and a business-grade internet connection with 300Mbps upload (boiling down to 75 to Seattle but hey, that's still more than enough). My feed was freezing and disconnecting like mad and I messaged them attaching the encoder going crazy, my computer specs and my speedtest results measured to Seattle with two different apps all in one screenshot.
They told the problem was me having two extra browser tabs open and running motherfucking Winamp while camming.
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Selenasecret
11-23-2016, 12:14 AM
Lol sorry my mistake Sally ;D
But them damn vogons read me some poem's who must have won the outsource contract with Streamate.
I just imagine their first day on the job.
And this is where we tattoo the only thing you have to say "do you have a $8,000 cpu?" and $1,000 worth of ram and a solid gold ssd that was forged in mordor? Then you cant help them.
We used to have parrots running the support but they started to become helpful so we roasted them for the office Xmas dinner. The sandmen from starwars were our next option but they actually knew a bit about tech.
Sorry stream doesnt work because of winamp?. Lol I used to use winamp on my first pc when I was at school it was a turbo powered 486dx with 16mb of ram running Windows 95. now if it had been real player that I can relate to.
Seriously its a shame cam girls dont just not work for a few days on there and focus on other sites. It would be shocking how fast they would start to listen to us.
" Streamate is worth no 40% of your cpu "
" while taking 65% of your money to foot the bill for freeloaders "
Until Streamate stop giving 720p and mp3 quality sound to anyone who doesnt have an account with a validated card then I just cant take their business model seriously
Sunnylexie
11-23-2016, 12:20 AM
IMO SM's been vogon-run since the day they hired that LJ guy. And LJ's been vogon-run from the start.
Selenasecret
11-23-2016, 12:38 AM
Windows 10 prob really messed them up as for the first time ever we had improved multicore performance. Its still not perfect in windows 10 but its made the older cpus faster as they can thread better than they ever had.
If my fx8350 cant stream as 5ghz on 8 cores isnt fast enough there is seriously something wrong with there software. Its 32bit so the SM encoder cant use more than 4gb ram anyway. Its not enough they locked out splitcam software they are going to make sure the cpu is so filled up you have to have a dedicated pc just for them. I chat with a few euro girls on twitter and they were saying all sorts about the issues they have. They work both LJ and SM but use a pc for each as they were told this in a workshop.
I can run doom 4 on my camming pc in 4k but I cant smoothly broadcast a 720p picture. There is something seriously wrong with that.
IMO SM's been vogon-run since the day they hired that LJ guy. And LJ's been vogon-run from the start.
This!
Seriously, a bad manager can fuck up a good business actually, not sure who is guilty for these all but some individuals can really make a business flourish or sink, i seen this IRL with the vanilla jobs i had, we had this incompetent manager who took soo many bad decisions regarding this retail line i was working at that in less than a year the company went bankrupt then guess what? he did the same with another company no kidding, i know this cause surprise! my next job was as an accountant at this again retail company and who was a manager there? 'Mr. ruin business' again! i had no idea, my job interview was with another manager.
Of course he ruined that company too in a short period of time then left the country and is now working as a manager somewhere in africa.
Just because u have a diploma and run a specific business/site does not mean u are very competent, IMO LJ is a very bad site for soo many reasons & SM is turning into a LJ's brother with that guy in charge there, if he is still there.
What works for LJ (eastern european studio oriented/ style for the most part) is not working on SM who has mostly independent cam models from the west that make the most money for the site, sure there are studios from EE or elsewhere too but that are not making soo much money.
Selenasecret
11-23-2016, 01:41 AM
Gets me how they are allowed to splitcam. As long as its using 2 pc lol.
Seeing a jump from 20% to 40% cpu useage is worrying just sticking with version 14. Version 16 is a joke extra 20% for nothing really other than to bog down my cpu
Sunnylexie
11-23-2016, 03:52 AM
IMO LJ is a very bad site for soo many reasons & SM is turning into a LJ's brother with that guy in charge there, if he is still there. What works for LJ (eastern european studio oriented/ style for the most part) is not working on SM who has mostly independent cam models from the west that make the most money for the site, sure there are studios from EE or elsewhere too but that are not making soo much money.
Yes, it looks very much like SM taking the LJ site-running strategy. LJ has a few featured top-earning contest-winning queens and everyone else is treated as expendables who come and go and aren't worth worrying about. The latter aren't getting any good support or traffic once the new model status wears out. It's my own pet conspiracy theory, but I think LJ is actually interested in having new models get frustrated and leave before they make enough to get their first payment, so the site keeps getting a steady flow of fresh meat without having to pay for it.
Ladies, is 85% CPU usage too much for my PC here? I tested it with SM HD and ImLive using Verysoft splitcam software, not sure if it's good to have it running this high? Dont wanna blow up my PC but cant upgrade for the time being. Ty! xx
Edited to add: yes, it is too much here cause it's going even higher than 85%, ImLive pulls a lot of horsepower out of my pc, i cant set any streaming parameters there, they automatically pull the best out of my machine and could see my stream on SM was a bit jumpy so not worth the trouble just now. Plus a guy on SM said he could not see me while i was splitcamming with FMLE, once i quit splitting and started my session with SMB he saw me just fine, said the quality is excellent.
Thinking what else i can do as i really only want to cam on cam sites not indy.
Selenasecret
11-23-2016, 10:28 AM
85% is high however whats the useage of you use flme and the imlive? Smb just sucks the life out of anything
Also what other process are running when you look at the taskmanager? Windows might be trying to update as that tool can suck the life out of a cpu