diff --git a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/AdaptiveLocalSearcher.java b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/AdaptiveLocalSearcher.java
index 3ba7249..b18a19f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/AdaptiveLocalSearcher.java
+++ b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/AdaptiveLocalSearcher.java
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ public class AdaptiveLocalSearcher implements LocalSearcher {
 			return countSearcher.collect(indexSearcherMono, queryParams, keyFieldName, transformer);
 		} else if (!FORCE_HUGE_PQ && realLimit <= maxInMemoryResultEntries) {
 			return standardSearcher.collect(indexSearcherMono, queryParams, keyFieldName, transformer);
-		} else if (FORCE_HUGE_PQ || queryParams.isSorted()) {
+		} else if (queryParams.isSorted()) {
 			if (!FORCE_HUGE_PQ && realLimit <= maxAllowedInMemoryLimit) {
 				return scoredPaged.collect(indexSearcherMono, queryParams, keyFieldName, transformer);
 			} else {
diff --git a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/AdaptiveMultiSearcher.java b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/AdaptiveMultiSearcher.java
index 7f5819e..6b9f15a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/AdaptiveMultiSearcher.java
+++ b/src/main/java/it/cavallium/dbengine/lucene/searcher/AdaptiveMultiSearcher.java
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ public class AdaptiveMultiSearcher implements MultiSearcher {
 			return count.collectMulti(indexSearchers, queryParams, keyFieldName, transformer);
 		} else if (!FORCE_HUGE_PQ && realLimit <= maxInMemoryResultEntries) {
 			return standardSearcher.collectMulti(indexSearchers, queryParams, keyFieldName, transformer);
-		} else if (FORCE_HUGE_PQ || queryParams.isSorted()) {
+		} else if (queryParams.isSorted()) {
 			if (!FORCE_HUGE_PQ && realLimit <= maxAllowedInMemoryLimit) {
 				return scoredPaged.collectMulti(indexSearchers, queryParams, keyFieldName, transformer);
 			} else {