diff --git a/GPU/Directx9/TextureCacheDX9.cpp b/GPU/Directx9/TextureCacheDX9.cpp
index 55329f692f..b9f4638722 100644
--- a/GPU/Directx9/TextureCacheDX9.cpp
+++ b/GPU/Directx9/TextureCacheDX9.cpp
@@ -682,10 +682,11 @@ void TextureCacheDX9::UpdateSamplingParams(TexCacheEntry &entry, bool force) {
 	D3DTEXTUREFILTERTYPE magf = (D3DTEXTUREFILTERTYPE)MagFilt[minFilt];
 
 	if (g_Config.iAnisotropyLevel > 0) {
-		if (minf == D3DTEXF_LINEAR) {
-			minf = D3DTEXF_ANISOTROPIC;
-			mipf = D3DTEXF_ANISOTROPIC;
-		}
+		mipf = D3DTEXF_ANISOTROPIC;
+		minf = D3DTEXF_ANISOTROPIC;
+		// In OpenGL, it seems like enabling anisotropy effectively turns on linear filtering.
+		// If we wanted the same behaviour here, we could add the following line, but I don't think it's correct to do that:
+		// magf = D3DTEXF_LINEAR;  // (intentionally commented out)
 	}
 
 	dxstate.texMinFilter.set(minf);