diff --git a/src/drawing/engines/SoftwareDrawingEngine.cpp b/src/drawing/engines/SoftwareDrawingEngine.cpp
index 1b878bef7c..c2781274f8 100644
--- a/src/drawing/engines/SoftwareDrawingEngine.cpp
+++ b/src/drawing/engines/SoftwareDrawingEngine.cpp
@@ -691,7 +691,7 @@ private:
                 uint32 * dst = (uint32 *)pixels;
                 for (int i = _width * _height; i > 0; i--)
                 {
-                    *dst++ = *(uint32 *)(&_paletteHWMapped[*src++]);
+                    *dst++ = _paletteHWMapped[*src++];
                 }
             }
             else