diff --git a/src/xenia/cpu/x64/x64_jit.cc b/src/xenia/cpu/x64/x64_jit.cc
index 4007dd7dd..6a53d7a02 100644
--- a/src/xenia/cpu/x64/x64_jit.cc
+++ b/src/xenia/cpu/x64/x64_jit.cc
@@ -106,15 +106,10 @@ int X64JIT::CheckProcessor() {
 
   // TODO(benvanik): ensure features we want are supported.
 
-  // TODO(benvanik): check for SSE modes we use.
-  if (!(mask & kX86FeatureSse3)) {
-    XELOGE("CPU does not support SSE3+ instructions!");
-    DumpCPUInfo();
-    return 1;
-  }
+  DumpCPUInfo();
   if (!(mask & kX86FeatureSse41)) {
-    XELOGW("CPU does not support SSE4.1+ instructions, performance degraded!");
-    DumpCPUInfo();
+    XELOGW("CPU does not support SSE4.1+ instructions!");
+    return 1;
   }
 
   return 0;
diff --git a/src/xenia/kernel/modules/xboxkrnl/xboxkrnl_threading.cc b/src/xenia/kernel/modules/xboxkrnl/xboxkrnl_threading.cc
index 4c1a26afb..e604b46a5 100644
--- a/src/xenia/kernel/modules/xboxkrnl/xboxkrnl_threading.cc
+++ b/src/xenia/kernel/modules/xboxkrnl/xboxkrnl_threading.cc
@@ -137,8 +137,6 @@ SHIM_CALL ExCreateThread_shim(
 
 uint32_t xeKeSetAffinityThread(void* thread_ptr, uint32_t affinity) {
   // TODO(benvanik): implement.
-  // TODO(benvanik): this also needs ObReferenceObjectByHandle to not
-  //     return dummy values.
   return affinity;
 }
 
@@ -153,6 +151,9 @@ SHIM_CALL KeSetAffinityThread_shim(
       thread,
       affinity);
 
+  // TODO(benvanik): expecting dummy values from ObReferenceObjectByHandle.
+  XEASSERT(thread == 0xDEADF00D);
+
   void* thread_ptr = SHIM_MEM_ADDR(thread);
   uint32_t result = xeKeSetAffinityThread(thread_ptr, affinity);
   SHIM_SET_RETURN(result);