diff --git a/src/osgUtil/Optimizer.cpp b/src/osgUtil/Optimizer.cpp
index 946eb904b..7caf1c588 100644
--- a/src/osgUtil/Optimizer.cpp
+++ b/src/osgUtil/Optimizer.cpp
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@
 #include <osg/io_utils>
 
 #include <osgUtil/TransformAttributeFunctor>
-#include <osgUtil/TriStripVisitor>
 #include <osgUtil/Tessellator>
 #include <osgUtil/Statistics>
 #include <osgUtil/MeshOptimizers>
@@ -54,7 +53,7 @@ void Optimizer::reset()
 {
 }
 
-static osg::ApplicationUsageProxy Optimizer_e0(osg::ApplicationUsage::ENVIRONMENTAL_VARIABLE,"OSG_OPTIMIZER \"<type> [<type>]\"","OFF | DEFAULT | FLATTEN_STATIC_TRANSFORMS | FLATTEN_STATIC_TRANSFORMS_DUPLICATING_SHARED_SUBGRAPHS | REMOVE_REDUNDANT_NODES | COMBINE_ADJACENT_LODS | SHARE_DUPLICATE_STATE | MERGE_GEOMETRY | MERGE_GEODES | SPATIALIZE_GROUPS  | COPY_SHARED_NODES  | TRISTRIP_GEOMETRY | OPTIMIZE_TEXTURE_SETTINGS | REMOVE_LOADED_PROXY_NODES | TESSELLATE_GEOMETRY | CHECK_GEOMETRY |  FLATTEN_BILLBOARDS | TEXTURE_ATLAS_BUILDER | STATIC_OBJECT_DETECTION | INDEX_MESH | VERTEX_POSTTRANSFORM | VERTEX_PRETRANSFORM | BUFFER_OBJECT_SETTINGS");
+static osg::ApplicationUsageProxy Optimizer_e0(osg::ApplicationUsage::ENVIRONMENTAL_VARIABLE,"OSG_OPTIMIZER \"<type> [<type>]\"","OFF | DEFAULT | FLATTEN_STATIC_TRANSFORMS | FLATTEN_STATIC_TRANSFORMS_DUPLICATING_SHARED_SUBGRAPHS | REMOVE_REDUNDANT_NODES | COMBINE_ADJACENT_LODS | SHARE_DUPLICATE_STATE | MERGE_GEOMETRY | MERGE_GEODES | SPATIALIZE_GROUPS  | COPY_SHARED_NODES | OPTIMIZE_TEXTURE_SETTINGS | REMOVE_LOADED_PROXY_NODES | TESSELLATE_GEOMETRY | CHECK_GEOMETRY |  FLATTEN_BILLBOARDS | TEXTURE_ATLAS_BUILDER | STATIC_OBJECT_DETECTION | INDEX_MESH | VERTEX_POSTTRANSFORM | VERTEX_PRETRANSFORM | BUFFER_OBJECT_SETTINGS");
 
 void Optimizer::optimize(osg::Node* node)
 {
@@ -104,9 +103,6 @@ void Optimizer::optimize(osg::Node* node)
         if(str.find("~TESSELLATE_GEOMETRY")!=std::string::npos) options ^= TESSELLATE_GEOMETRY;
         else if(str.find("TESSELLATE_GEOMETRY")!=std::string::npos) options |= TESSELLATE_GEOMETRY;
 
-        if(str.find("~TRISTRIP_GEOMETRY")!=std::string::npos) options ^= TRISTRIP_GEOMETRY;
-        else if(str.find("TRISTRIP_GEOMETRY")!=std::string::npos) options |= TRISTRIP_GEOMETRY;
-
         if(str.find("~OPTIMIZE_TEXTURE_SETTINGS")!=std::string::npos) options ^= OPTIMIZE_TEXTURE_SETTINGS;
         else if(str.find("OPTIMIZE_TEXTURE_SETTINGS")!=std::string::npos) options |= OPTIMIZE_TEXTURE_SETTINGS;
 
@@ -325,14 +321,6 @@ void Optimizer::optimize(osg::Node* node, unsigned int options)
         OSG_INFO<<"MERGE_GEOMETRY took "<<osg::Timer::instance()->delta_s(startTick,endTick)<<std::endl;
     }
 
-    if (options & TRISTRIP_GEOMETRY)
-    {
-        OSG_INFO<<"Optimizer::optimize() doing TRISTRIP_GEOMETRY"<<std::endl;
-
-        TriStripVisitor tsv(this);
-        node->accept(tsv);
-        tsv.stripify();
-    }
 
     if (options & FLATTEN_BILLBOARDS)
     {