diff --git a/src/client/creatures.cpp b/src/client/creatures.cpp
index 314b5891..e925002e 100644
--- a/src/client/creatures.cpp
+++ b/src/client/creatures.cpp
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 
 #include <framework/xml/tinyxml.h>
 #include <framework/core/resourcemanager.h>
-#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>
 
 CreatureManager g_creatures;
 
@@ -196,6 +195,8 @@ void CreatureManager::loadNpcs(const std::string& folder)
     if(!stdext::ends_with(tmp, "/"))
         tmp += "/";
 
+    // FIXME: filesystem is not supported anymore, rework the following code with g_resources
+    /*
     boost::filesystem::path npcPath(boost::filesystem::current_path().generic_string() + tmp);
     if(!boost::filesystem::exists(npcPath))
         stdext::throw_exception(stdext::format("NPCs folder '%s' was not found.", folder));
@@ -207,6 +208,7 @@ void CreatureManager::loadNpcs(const std::string& folder)
 
         loadCreatureBuffer(g_resources.readFileContents(tmp + f));
     }
+    */
 }
 
 void CreatureManager::loadSpawns(const std::string& fileName)
diff --git a/src/framework/CMakeLists.txt b/src/framework/CMakeLists.txt
index b5c1f647..24f6c7d8 100644
--- a/src/framework/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/framework/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ message(STATUS "Build revision: ${BUILD_REVISION}")
 add_definitions(-D"BUILD_REVISION=\\\"${BUILD_REVISION}\\\"")
 
 # find boost
-set(REQUIRED_BOOST_COMPONENTS system filesystem thread chrono)
+set(REQUIRED_BOOST_COMPONENTS system thread chrono)
 if(WIN32)
     set(Boost_THREADAPI win32)
     set(framework_DEFINITIONS ${framework_DEFINITIONS} -DBOOST_THREAD_USE_LIB) # fix boost thread linkage
diff --git a/src/framework/core/application.cpp b/src/framework/core/application.cpp
index 29a0df7a..194a56fa 100644
--- a/src/framework/core/application.cpp
+++ b/src/framework/core/application.cpp
@@ -31,9 +31,6 @@
 #include <framework/platform/crashhandler.h>
 #include <framework/platform/platform.h>
 
-#include <boost/locale.hpp>
-#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>
-#include <boost/filesystem/fstream.hpp>
 #include <locale>
 
 #ifdef FW_NET
@@ -75,8 +72,6 @@ void Application::init(std::vector<std::string>& args)
 
     // setup locale
     std::locale::global(std::locale());
-    std::locale utf8("en_US.UTF-8");
-    boost::filesystem::path::imbue(utf8);
 
     // process args encoding
     g_platform.processArgs(args);
diff --git a/src/framework/core/resourcemanager.cpp b/src/framework/core/resourcemanager.cpp
index 87ccc069..e0f1f56c 100644
--- a/src/framework/core/resourcemanager.cpp
+++ b/src/framework/core/resourcemanager.cpp
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@
 
 #include <framework/core/application.h>
 #include <framework/luaengine/luainterface.h>
+#include <framework/platform/platform.h>
 
 #include <physfs.h>
-#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>
 
 ResourceManager g_resources;
 
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ std::string ResourceManager::getRealDir(const std::string& path)
 
 std::string ResourceManager::getCurrentDir()
 {
-    return boost::filesystem::current_path().generic_string<std::string>() + "/";
+    return g_platform.getCurrentDir();
 }
 
 std::string ResourceManager::getBaseDir()
diff --git a/src/framework/platform/platform.h b/src/framework/platform/platform.h
index c12bf445..992f6fd4 100644
--- a/src/framework/platform/platform.h
+++ b/src/framework/platform/platform.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ public:
     bool isProcessRunning(const std::string& name);
     bool killProcess(const std::string& name);
     std::string getTempPath();
+    std::string getCurrentDir();
     bool copyFile(std::string from, std::string to);
     bool fileExists(const std::string& file);
     void openUrl(std::string url);
diff --git a/src/framework/platform/unixplatform.cpp b/src/framework/platform/unixplatform.cpp
index c6f053c4..2d7dd513 100644
--- a/src/framework/platform/unixplatform.cpp
+++ b/src/framework/platform/unixplatform.cpp
@@ -79,6 +79,15 @@ std::string Platform::getTempPath()
     return "/tmp/";
 }
 
+std::string Platform::getCurrentDir()
+{
+    std::string res;
+    char cwd[2048];
+    if(getcwd(cwd, sizeof(cwd)) != NULL)
+        res = cwd;
+    return res;
+}
+
 bool Platform::copyFile(std::string from, std::string to)
 {
     return system(stdext::format("/bin/cp '%s' '%s'", from, to).c_str()) == 0;
diff --git a/src/framework/platform/win32platform.cpp b/src/framework/platform/win32platform.cpp
index 37da156c..f58daaf2 100644
--- a/src/framework/platform/win32platform.cpp
+++ b/src/framework/platform/win32platform.cpp
@@ -88,6 +88,16 @@ std::string Platform::getTempPath()
     return stdext::utf16_to_utf8(path);
 }
 
+std::string Platform::getCurrentDir()
+{
+    std::string ret;
+    wchar_t path[MAX_PATH];
+    GetCurrentDirectoryW(MAX_PATH, path);
+    ret = stdext::utf16_to_utf8(path);
+    boost::replace_all(ret, "\\", "/");
+    return ret;
+}
+
 bool Platform::fileExists(const std::string& file)
 {
     std::wstring wfile = stdext::utf8_to_utf16(file);