Monitors and TV's are converging. Get used to 16:9

Now here is someone who must be reading my mind.
Im not thrilled either with the mainstream moving to 1080p.
I have a 1920x1200 monitor and my wife has a cheap TN panel 1080p monitor, and im forced to play letterboxed when she gets fullscreen.

So its not like we dont know what you guys are mad about, we do!

I dont fault CDP for trying to maximize profits either , it ensures we will see future Witcher titles on pc i hope.

I actually applaud them for supporting us pc gamers as i prefer to game on the pc with KB/mouse over my consoles with controller.

Anyway, we'd ALL like to see native 16:10 support, but you really shouldnt let it frustrate you to the point that it keeps you from enjoying the game.

You may be mad about CDP tailoring their game to release on console later.
But they are one of the few developers left that are even trying to support the pc gaming community and actually released the game on pc first instead of us having to wait for a delayed port.

As far as 4:3 support, no dis-respect but man you're asking for a lot in 2011, you've got to admit that.
Now the AMD x-fire lighting issue is certainly something that needs fixing ASAP since its AMD's job to support its multicard users with working drivers for current games.

People are correct when they say it's not a bug because it is not, it is a shoddy "universal" design to cover all platforms.

With that being said it does depend on your monitor. On my 16:10 with 1650x1080 resolution the black bars are pretty small and ignorable, on other monitors (like 4:3) things are not looking so rosy and can definitely feel why a 4:3 is pissed.

And btw... the television standard and the channels are still mostly 4:3

Well i'll be a one eyed whoreson....
They're adding proper 4:3 support in patch 1.3 in case you havent seen the other thread yet.
http://en.thewitcher.com/community/entry/55/

Um yeah show me anywhere where I said they shouldn't make the game for consoles? I said they needed to make a proper PC version, and not be lazy

Prime time and all popular cable channels are actually 16:9 first, then down converted for 4:3 for standard definition channels, but even then most of the time there is black bars anyways because they keep the 16:9. I see 16:9 aspect ratio being used for HD and SD more then I see 4:3 is being used for SD.
There is a difference between being lazy, and getting a product ready to sell to stay in business. Adding support for 4:3 and 16:10 was a lower priority then other more important stuff that makes the game playable, like finishing the game and polishing it up as much as possible before releasing. They were not being lazy at all, they did the exact opposite, they worked very hard to deliver a product in time to keep themselves in business and to keep their employees.

I call BS. Last time I checked CDP has said nothing about any financial issues at all. Dude 16:10 monitors are very common. It is being lazy.

Theres a simple reason why theres so many ppl complaining. Most of LCD's with IPS matrix are 16:10, so every single gamer that cares about image quality sees those black bars, not mentioning quite a few that still keeps 4:3 CRT with far superior quality over any LCD.

May I show you this thread? http://www.gog.com/en/forum/the_witcher_2/tiny_text_and_hud_elements_on_a_17_screen

It is pretty much unplayable for me because of lack of support for common resolutions. It's the only game ever that gave me such trouble.

It's not a bug, it was done consciously and for debatably good reasons (using the time to fix some serious bugs), but it doesn't negate the fact that it's a huge problem. Don't be daft and pretend it's not.

On the old official forums it was talked about for a few months before release, with feedback from the developers. They said that there was more pressing higher priority issues that needed to be fixed to get the game out on time. Why do you think they needed to make a certain dead line to release the game? They are a small company, they don't have the luxury of Blizzard to release a game when ever they feel like it. The budget for the game was smaller then the average AAA game has. You do know that everything cost money and time right?
4:3 aspect ratio support is going to added on the next patch, so it should be playable for you then. Makes sense they support that first before 16:10 since on 16:10 monitors they are only losing 10% of their monitor space.