diff --git a/Utilities/StrFmt.cpp b/Utilities/StrFmt.cpp
index 51ed10c3e6..58ed16f145 100644
--- a/Utilities/StrFmt.cpp
+++ b/Utilities/StrFmt.cpp
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 #include "stdafx.h"
 #include "StrFmt.h"
 
+static const std::string fmt::placeholder = "???";
+
+
 //wrapper to deal with advance sprintf formating options with automatic length finding
 //can't take strings by reference because of "va_start", so overload it with char *
 std::string fmt::FormatV(const char *fmt, va_list args)
diff --git a/Utilities/StrFmt.h b/Utilities/StrFmt.h
index 2338ea7d07..0c705bd544 100644
--- a/Utilities/StrFmt.h
+++ b/Utilities/StrFmt.h
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #pragma once
 #include <string>
+#include <vector>
 #include <ostream>
 #include <sstream>
 #include <cstdio>
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@ namespace fmt{
 
 	struct empty_t{};
 
-	//static const string placeholder = "???";
+	extern const string placeholder;
 
 	// write `fmt` from `pos` to the first occurence of `fmt::placeholder` to
 	// the stream `os`. Then write `arg` to to the stream. If there's no
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ namespace fmt{
 	template<typename T>
 	empty_t write(const string &fmt, ostream &os, string::size_type &pos, T &&arg)
 	{
-		string::size_type ins = fmt.find(/*placeholder*/"???", pos);
+		string::size_type ins = fmt.find(placeholder, pos);
 
 		if (ins == string::npos)
 		{
@@ -94,14 +95,6 @@ namespace fmt{
 		return str;
 	}
 
-	//TODO:remove
-	//fmt alias for FormatV unused at the moment
-	template <typename... Args>
-	auto fmt(Args&&... args) -> decltype(FormatV(std::forward<Args>(parameters)...))
-	{
-		return FormatV(std::forward<Args>(args)...);
-	}
-
 	//convert a wxString to a std::string encoded in utf8
 	//CAUTION, only use this to interface with wxWidgets classes
 	std::string ToUTF8(const wxString& right);
diff --git a/rpcs3/Emu/CPU/CPUDecoder.h b/rpcs3/Emu/CPU/CPUDecoder.h
index c686863be8..4091e73146 100644
--- a/rpcs3/Emu/CPU/CPUDecoder.h
+++ b/rpcs3/Emu/CPU/CPUDecoder.h
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #pragma once
+#include <algorithm>
 #include "CPUInstrTable.h"
 #pragma warning( disable : 4800 )
 
@@ -321,7 +322,16 @@ public:
 		, m_args_count(args_count)
 		, m_args(args_count ? new CodeFieldBase*[args_count] : nullptr)
 	{
-		m_name.MakeLower().Replace("_", ".");
+			std::transform(
+				name.begin(),
+				name.end(),
+				m_name.begin(),
+				[](const char &a)
+				{
+					char b = tolower(a);
+					if (b == '_') b = '.';
+					return b;
+				});
 	}
 
 	__forceinline const std::string& GetName() const
diff --git a/rpcs3/Emu/Cell/PPUProgramCompiler.cpp b/rpcs3/Emu/Cell/PPUProgramCompiler.cpp
index 03f7f4a796..e74e741a95 100644
--- a/rpcs3/Emu/Cell/PPUProgramCompiler.cpp
+++ b/rpcs3/Emu/Cell/PPUProgramCompiler.cpp
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ void CompilePPUProgram::WriteError(const std::string& error)
 {
 	if(m_err_list)
 	{
-		m_err_list->WriteText(fmt::FromUTF8(fmt::Format("line %lld: %s\n", m_line, error)));
+		m_err_list->WriteText(fmt::FromUTF8(fmt::Format("line %lld: %s\n", m_line, error.c_str())));
 	}
 }