diff --git a/components/resource/niffilemanager.cpp b/components/resource/niffilemanager.cpp
index fd25c1c409..17165bcda4 100644
--- a/components/resource/niffilemanager.cpp
+++ b/components/resource/niffilemanager.cpp
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ namespace Resource
             return static_cast<NifFileHolder*>(obj.get())->mNifFile;
         else
         {
-            Nif::NIFFilePtr file (new Nif::NIFFile(mVFS->get(name), name));
+            Nif::NIFFilePtr file (new Nif::NIFFile(mVFS->getNormalized(name), name));
             obj = new NifFileHolder(file);
             mCache->addEntryToObjectCache(name, obj);
             return file;