diff --git a/pi/bin/chromegtts-daemon.py b/pi/bin/chromegtts-daemon.py
index 1b842032..2eb7bd1f 100644
--- a/pi/bin/chromegtts-daemon.py
+++ b/pi/bin/chromegtts-daemon.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 import ctypes
-import ctypes.util
 import json
 import os
 import struct
@@ -34,40 +33,6 @@ MAX_PITCH = 2.0
 MIN_SPEED = 0.5
 MAX_SPEED = 2.0
 
-_runtime_handles = []
-
-
-def load_shared_library(path):
-    mode = ctypes.RTLD_GLOBAL | getattr(os, "RTLD_NOW", 0)
-    return ctypes.CDLL(path, mode=mode)
-
-
-def preload_runtime_libraries():
-    # Some ChromeOS libchrometts builds reference compiler helper symbols such
-    # as __udivmodti4 without declaring the runtime library as an ELF dependency.
-    # Loading common compiler runtimes globally first makes those symbols visible
-    # before ctypes loads /opt/roverd/googletts/libchrometts.so.
-    candidates = [
-        "gcc_s",
-        "atomic",
-        "stdc++",
-        "c++",
-        "c++abi",
-    ]
-    for name in candidates:
-        lib = ctypes.util.find_library(name)
-        if not lib:
-            continue
-        try:
-            _runtime_handles.append(load_shared_library(lib))
-        except OSError:
-            pass
-
-
-# Load the runtime helpers at module import time so daemon readiness fails only
-# when libchrometts itself is still unusable after the best-effort preloads.
-preload_runtime_libraries()
-
 
 def varint(value):
     out = bytearray()
@@ -99,7 +64,7 @@ def build_speaker(name, gender):
 
 class ChromeTTS:
     def __init__(self):
-        self.lib = load_shared_library(LIB_PATH)
+        self.lib = ctypes.CDLL(LIB_PATH)
         self.lib.GoogleTtsInit.argtypes = [ctypes.c_char_p, ctypes.c_char_p]
         self.lib.GoogleTtsInit.restype = ctypes.c_bool
         self.lib.GoogleTtsInitBuffered.argtypes = [ctypes.c_char_p, ctypes.c_char_p, ctypes.c_int, ctypes.c_int]