diff --git a/release/datafiles/splash.png b/release/datafiles/splash.png
index 5dc54c8bd79..7f94a491469 100644
Binary files a/release/datafiles/splash.png and b/release/datafiles/splash.png differ
diff --git a/release/datafiles/splash_2x.png b/release/datafiles/splash_2x.png
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f94a491469..00000000000
Binary files a/release/datafiles/splash_2x.png and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/release/datafiles/splash_scale.sh b/release/datafiles/splash_scale.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 8a3f2c6d1eb..00000000000
--- a/release/datafiles/splash_scale.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-# Use this script to generate splash.png from splash_2x.png.
-# Supposed to give best quality image.
-#
-# Based on ImageMagic documentation, which is interesting
-# to read anyway:
-#
-#  http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/filter
-#  http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/filter/nicolas/
-
-convert \
-  splash_2x.png \
-  -colorspace RGB \
-  -filter Cosine \
-  -resize 50% \
-  -colorspace sRGB \
-  splash.png
diff --git a/source/blender/editors/datafiles/CMakeLists.txt b/source/blender/editors/datafiles/CMakeLists.txt
index 1bc0465424d..3e9d2def78e 100644
--- a/source/blender/editors/datafiles/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/source/blender/editors/datafiles/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -779,7 +779,6 @@ if(WITH_BLENDER)
 
     # images
     data_to_c_simple(../../../../release/datafiles/splash.png SRC)
-    data_to_c_simple(../../../../release/datafiles/splash_2x.png SRC)
     data_to_c_simple(../../../../release/datafiles/alert_icons.png SRC)
     # XXX These are handy, but give nasty "false changes" in svn :/
     # svg_to_png(../../../../release/datafiles/blender_icons.svg
diff --git a/source/blender/editors/include/ED_datafiles.h b/source/blender/editors/include/ED_datafiles.h
index b6f9593c261..ad1cde5406d 100644
--- a/source/blender/editors/include/ED_datafiles.h
+++ b/source/blender/editors/include/ED_datafiles.h
@@ -54,9 +54,6 @@ extern char datatoc_alert_icons_png[];
 extern int datatoc_splash_png_size;
 extern char datatoc_splash_png[];
 
-extern int datatoc_splash_2x_png_size;
-extern char datatoc_splash_2x_png[];
-
 extern int datatoc_bfont_pfb_size;
 extern char datatoc_bfont_pfb[];
 
diff --git a/source/blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_splash_screen.c b/source/blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_splash_screen.c
index 1f8a60250be..4cf6291c2e4 100644
--- a/source/blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_splash_screen.c
+++ b/source/blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_splash_screen.c
@@ -181,8 +181,8 @@ static void wm_block_splash_add_labels(uiBlock *block, int x, int y)
 static ImBuf *wm_block_splash_image(void)
 {
 #ifndef WITH_HEADLESS
-  extern char datatoc_splash_2x_png[];
-  extern int datatoc_splash_2x_png_size;
+  extern char datatoc_splash_png[];
+  extern int datatoc_splash_png_size;
 
   ImBuf *ibuf = NULL;
 
@@ -197,8 +197,8 @@ static ImBuf *wm_block_splash_image(void)
   }
 
   if (ibuf == NULL) {
-    const uchar *splash_data = (const uchar *)datatoc_splash_2x_png;
-    size_t splash_data_size = datatoc_splash_2x_png_size;
+    const uchar *splash_data = (const uchar *)datatoc_splash_png;
+    size_t splash_data_size = datatoc_splash_png_size;
     ibuf = IMB_ibImageFromMemory(splash_data, splash_data_size, IB_rect, NULL, "<splash screen>");
   }