diff --git a/src/render/software/SDL_render_sw.c b/src/render/software/SDL_render_sw.c
index ea848ba68c..484a6b3984 100644
--- a/src/render/software/SDL_render_sw.c
+++ b/src/render/software/SDL_render_sw.c
@@ -154,10 +154,7 @@ static bool SW_CreateTexture(SDL_Renderer *renderer, SDL_Texture *texture, SDL_P
         }
     }
 
-    /* Only RLE encode textures without an alpha channel since the RLE coder
-     * discards the color values of pixels with an alpha value of zero.
-     */
-    if (texture->access == SDL_TEXTUREACCESS_STATIC && !SDL_ISPIXELFORMAT_ALPHA(surface->format)) {
+    if (texture->access == SDL_TEXTUREACCESS_STATIC) {
         SDL_SetSurfaceRLE(surface, true);
     }
 
@@ -674,13 +671,6 @@ static void PrepTextureForCopy(const SDL_RenderCommand *cmd, SW_DrawStateCache *
     const SDL_BlendMode blend = cmd->data.draw.blend;
     SDL_Texture *texture = cmd->data.draw.texture;
     SDL_Surface *surface = (SDL_Surface *)texture->internal;
-    const bool colormod = ((r & g & b) != 0xFF);
-    const bool alphamod = (a != 0xFF);
-    const bool blending = ((blend == SDL_BLENDMODE_ADD) || (blend == SDL_BLENDMODE_MOD) || (blend == SDL_BLENDMODE_MUL));
-
-    if (colormod || alphamod || blending) {
-        SDL_SetSurfaceRLE(surface, false);
-    }
 
     // !!! FIXME: we can probably avoid some of these calls.
     SDL_SetSurfaceColorMod(surface, r, g, b);
@@ -876,11 +866,6 @@ static bool SW_RunCommandQueue(SDL_Renderer *renderer, SDL_RenderCommand *cmd, v
             if (srcrect->w == dstrect->w && srcrect->h == dstrect->h) {
                 SDL_BlitSurface(src, srcrect, surface, dstrect);
             } else {
-                /* If scaling is ever done, permanently disable RLE (which doesn't support scaling)
-                 * to avoid potentially frequent RLE encoding/decoding.
-                 */
-                SDL_SetSurfaceRLE(surface, false);
-
                 // Prevent to do scaling + clipping on viewport boundaries as it may lose proportion
                 if (dstrect->x < 0 || dstrect->y < 0 || dstrect->x + dstrect->w > surface->w || dstrect->y + dstrect->h > surface->h) {
                     SDL_Surface *tmp = SDL_CreateSurface(dstrect->w, dstrect->h, surface->format);