diff --git a/Dalamud/Interface/AssetManager.cs b/Dalamud/Interface/AssetManager.cs
index b1fd3bdc1..108d3ab16 100644
--- a/Dalamud/Interface/AssetManager.cs
+++ b/Dalamud/Interface/AssetManager.cs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
+using System.Net;
 using System.Net.Http;
 using System.Text;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ namespace Dalamud.Interface
         };
 
         public static async Task EnsureAssets(string baseDir) {
-            using var client = new HttpClient();
+            using var client = new WebClient();
 
             Log.Verbose("Starting asset download");
 
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ namespace Dalamud.Interface
                 if (!File.Exists(filePath)) {
                     Log.Verbose("Downloading {0} to {1}...", entry.Key, entry.Value);
                     try {
-                        File.WriteAllBytes(filePath, await client.GetByteArrayAsync(entry.Key));
+                        File.WriteAllBytes(filePath, client.DownloadData(entry.Key));
                     } catch (Exception ex) {
                         // If another game is running, we don't want to just fail in here
                         Log.Error(ex, "Could not download asset.");