Ready have a ticket sent over on it but I can update it.

hmmmm....  4.4 GHz one of the best processors AMD currently offers, about the same as an i5 or low i7

with 50+ races although Brad did say he was running 100+ with no problem so I don't know hmmmm....

this is the link to AMD's page w/ my processor mine is the second best...

http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/processors/desktop/fx

I think one thing that is being forgotten here is that processor speed isn't the only thing that can slow your game down. Two biggies are RAM installed and the OS's virtual memory settings.

Basically, Brad's response was "We are unaware of any such issues."

And then some hand-waving about how even though the game is multithreaded, all the threads queue their pathfinding requests onto a single processor which Brad believed to be the cause of the slowdown. But then he said that he played with 100 AIs and didn't have any slowdown. So while the pathfinding issue might be the case, it could also be some other problem.

It's likely some combination of which AIs you're using, the map settings, and some RNG goodness. Which is to say, until a dev actually has it happen and can get it to happen repeatedly, it's likely going to continue to be an issue.

AMD CPUs are great.  I used to have one, often, I miss it.  It's faster (and cheaper) than Intel for most tasks.  But not gaming.

I can't explain in large technical details, but it has something to do with the way games are coded and how Intel is taking advantage of that.  They mostly use one core at a time, and on that Intel is superior to AMD.
AMD is great for encryption and rendering/editing large video files because it can process all that stuff simultaneously accross all cores.

See, with my Intel i5 (4 cores), copying large files over drives will slow my system to a crawl.  Encrypting/decrytping a 1TB drive takes 3 days.  On AMD, it was a fraction of the time for each operations.  But, when it comes to games, that tiny little CPU, far from being Intel's top of the line surpass my former 8 cores AMD at all resolutions.  No more choppy gameplay with full graphics on.  Crysis 3 ran like a charm where as it was sometimes sluggish with my AMD.

Now, things might get better with the new Mantle API and DirectX12, since they "talk" directly ot the hardware, so some bottlenecks might be eliminated.  Also, DirectX11 is currently optimized for Windows 8/8.1, it is slightly faster than on Win7, but it usually only makes a difference for graphic intensive games, so I don't really know about that.

If you want a good read on CPU clock speeds and why it doesn't matter:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/04/ask-ars-whats-the-relationship-between-cpu-clockspeed-and-performance/

And on CPU designs for Intel and AMD:

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-past-present-and-future-of-the-cpu-according-t/1100-6421514/

Basically, AMD is throwing all the info at the beginning down one core and causing a slow down vs Brad's Intel which properly spreads the work.

All cores are showing 100% therefore the processor use is 100% that still wouldn't explain those points.

I find this more of the issue but I'm still curious on why as if this is the case it's taking many times longer based on numbers let's say 20 seconds for first turn on Intel and 5 minutes on AMD that's 15 x's faster and that shouldn't be I could accept 2-4x's faster but even that seems high...

Here is my question is anyone else currently playing this game running an AMD FX processor whether it's an FX 83xx or FX93xx, as well as an Radeon GPU and do you have the same issue with 50+ players on insane?

This is why I think this hasn't come up too much yet.  A lot of people who have similar configurations as mine haven't played with that many players as right now you have to create every race manually, however, maybe with release someone can try

Yeah it holds at 100% for 5-10 minutes after loading an insane map with 50+ players on all 8 cores (this game is the first game I've seen do that, Video conversion does it too but that's not a game)

Then it does it every turn for 5 seconds or so. (not a big deal)

seilore i have an fx9590 and a radeon 7570 

i would be willing to try a game with 50 + races but am unwilling to make 50+ races would you upload your races and i would be happy to try it out

Okay here is my entire faction folder, as I don't know if you need the BF/FG/portraits/logo's to make it work okay, in all I believe there are 45 custom races 4 or 5 downloaded off the Stardock site from the faction contest the rest I created.  (the core network was modified as the original faction contest one was causing the game to crash). 

Link should be good for 7 days...

http://wikisend.com/download/592400/Factions.zip

Anyone should be able to.

On a side note if anyone get's going on a game like this on an insane map, does your ship movement get jumpy as you start meeting half of the races and have exploration treaties with several of them?