diff --git a/src/common/threadsafe_queue.h b/src/common/threadsafe_queue.h
index 68955d66d..e10baed2e 100644
--- a/src/common/threadsafe_queue.h
+++ b/src/common/threadsafe_queue.h
@@ -7,18 +7,17 @@
 // a simple lockless thread-safe,
 // single reader, single writer queue
 
-#include <algorithm>
 #include <atomic>
 #include <condition_variable>
 #include <cstddef>
 #include <mutex>
-#include "common/common_types.h"
+#include <utility>
 
 namespace Common {
-template <typename T, bool NeedSize = true>
+template <typename T>
 class SPSCQueue {
 public:
-    SPSCQueue() : size(0) {
+    SPSCQueue() {
         write_ptr = read_ptr = new ElementPtr();
     }
     ~SPSCQueue() {
@@ -26,13 +25,12 @@ public:
         delete read_ptr;
     }
 
-    u32 Size() const {
-        static_assert(NeedSize, "using Size() on FifoQueue without NeedSize");
+    std::size_t Size() const {
         return size.load();
     }
 
     bool Empty() const {
-        return !read_ptr->next.load();
+        return Size() == 0;
     }
 
     T& Front() const {
@@ -48,14 +46,14 @@ public:
         ElementPtr* new_ptr = new ElementPtr();
         write_ptr->next.store(new_ptr, std::memory_order_release);
         write_ptr = new_ptr;
-        if (NeedSize)
-            size++;
+        ++size;
+
         cv.notify_one();
     }
 
     void Pop() {
-        if (NeedSize)
-            size--;
+        --size;
+
         ElementPtr* tmpptr = read_ptr;
         // advance the read pointer
         read_ptr = tmpptr->next.load();
@@ -68,8 +66,7 @@ public:
         if (Empty())
             return false;
 
-        if (NeedSize)
-            size--;
+        --size;
 
         ElementPtr* tmpptr = read_ptr;
         read_ptr = tmpptr->next.load(std::memory_order_acquire);
@@ -101,7 +98,7 @@ private:
     // and a pointer to the next ElementPtr
     class ElementPtr {
     public:
-        ElementPtr() : next(nullptr) {}
+        ElementPtr() = default;
         ~ElementPtr() {
             ElementPtr* next_ptr = next.load();
 
@@ -110,12 +107,12 @@ private:
         }
 
         T current;
-        std::atomic<ElementPtr*> next;
+        std::atomic<ElementPtr*> next{nullptr};
     };
 
     ElementPtr* write_ptr;
     ElementPtr* read_ptr;
-    std::atomic<u32> size;
+    std::atomic_size_t size{0};
     std::mutex cv_mutex;
     std::condition_variable cv;
 };
@@ -123,10 +120,10 @@ private:
 // a simple thread-safe,
 // single reader, multiple writer queue
 
-template <typename T, bool NeedSize = true>
+template <typename T>
 class MPSCQueue {
 public:
-    u32 Size() const {
+    std::size_t Size() const {
         return spsc_queue.Size();
     }
 
@@ -162,7 +159,7 @@ public:
     }
 
 private:
-    SPSCQueue<T, NeedSize> spsc_queue;
+    SPSCQueue<T> spsc_queue;
     std::mutex write_lock;
 };
 } // namespace Common
diff --git a/src/core/core_timing.h b/src/core/core_timing.h
index 617c7c6d6..a51c00bba 100644
--- a/src/core/core_timing.h
+++ b/src/core/core_timing.h
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ private:
     u64 event_fifo_id = 0;
     // the queue for storing the events from other threads threadsafe until they will be added
     // to the event_queue by the emu thread
-    Common::MPSCQueue<Event, false> ts_queue;
+    Common::MPSCQueue<Event> ts_queue;
     s64 idled_cycles = 0;
 
     // Are we in a function that has been called from Advance()