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My Odin 3 fan started making an intermittent scraping/rubbing noise.

At first I was convinced something was physically touching the blades:
• cable position
• fan slightly off-center
• contact with the chassis

Especially because sometimes simply moving or tilting the Odin made the sound disappear. So I opened it expecting an obvious answer.

Honestly, I thought I would instantly find debris, a cable touching the blades, or some visible damage.
Instead: nothing. No debris. No damage. No visible contact point.

I even removed the fan and spun it manually:
• no rubbing
• no resistance
• perfectly smooth

Which was frustrating because during normal use I could clearly hear the issue.

While waiting for AYN support, I searched community discussions and eventually found people mentioning lubrication. As someone with almost no repair experience, the idea sounded strange. I didn't even know a fan could become "too dry".

Still, I bought precision lubricant, applied one microscopic drop to the center rotating support area, spun the fan manually in both directions, and put everything back together.

Result: complete silence. After several hours of testing at different temperatures and fan speeds, no noise, no vibration, no scraping.

This doesn't prove anything for sure, but if lubrication instantly fixed it, I suspect the issue was probably:
• dry bearing
• tiny axial movement
• microscopic internal friction

Maybe the sound comes back one day. Maybe not. But if the long-term solution is adding one tiny drop of lubricant every few months, honestly I can live with that.

Side mission: I also replaced my stock ABXY buttons with Playstation buttons during the process. Ironically, that turned out to be much harder than fixing the fan.

Top Spin 4 (standard version) / aPS3e / Odin 3

During my tests with around ten games, I had pretty bad luck with RPCS3: without specific tweaks, I mostly encountered crashes.
aPS3e has been far less punishing so far, with several games launching immediately without any special configuration. They are not always optimized, but they are playable. So, for now, aPS3e feels like the more reliable starting point.

1. Goals
- Stable gameplay without crashes
- Staying below 70°C to avoid relying on the fan
- Getting as close as possible to a stable 60 fps

2. Results
- No crashes encountered so far, all tested modes are accessible
- Very rare and brief peaks at 70°C
- Gameplay sequences running at a stable 59–60 fps, while presentation scenes and cinematics stay at a stable 30 fps, which conveniently helps lower temperatures slightly between matches

3. Settings

• aPS3e
CORE
- PPU Threads = 2
VIDEO
- Frame limit = PS3 native
- Write depth = ON
- VSync = ON
- Use BGRA format = OFF
- Force texture conversion = ON

• Odin 3
High Performance mode

• ClusterTune
Custom profile between “Small Underclock” and “Medium Underclock”:
- C0 = 2.75 GHz
- C6 = 2.44 GHz

4. Minor anomaly
One visual issue remains: striped/glitched faces are sometimes visible on AI-controlled players. They mostly appear during pre-match presentations, close-up camera shots, or cinematic zooms.

I have never noticed them on the human-controlled player, and they become far less visible (or completely invisible) during actual gameplay.

5. Conclusion - To be continued
For now, this is the best balance I’ve found between stability, temperature, and performance.

The PS3 version runs great on Odin 3, but unfortunately the World Tour Mode is broken there.

So I tried the PC version instead. It works perfectly on my Windows PC, but I can’t get it running properly on Odin 3 with Winlator, Winlator CMOD, Winlator Ludashi, GameHub, GameHub lite and GameNative.

I already applied the "xlive.dll" / Xliveless fix, and I can even open the launcher now, but the game itself always refuses to start with the same error message:

"User does not have privileges to access this application"

I’ve spent hours trying different containers, wrappers, DLLs, launchers, compatibility settings, etc., with no success.

Has anyone managed to make Virtua Tennis 4 fully work on Odin 3? Any idea what I’m missing?

GTA IV (Anker version) / GameHub / Odin 3

A. Without the FusionFix patch

• High settings overall (traffic density at 100% — apparently, around 30% is closer to the original PS3 experience).
• View distance set to 100%.
• Detail distance at 50% after hours of testing. Beyond that, I don’t notice any meaningful visual improvement on the Odin’s screen resolution.

Conditions:

• Standard mode
• No fan enabled
• No FusionFix
• “Large” underclock preset (the biggest CPU downclock). I use the ClusterTune app because it’s directly accessible from the Android menu.

RESULTS:

• Low temperatures (under 55°C)
• Relatively smooth performance. For me, “smooth” means stable performance above 30 fps. The game stays around 30 fps while driving through the city streets.

Honestly, I’m shocked by the level of performance under these conditions!

B. With GameHub’s Frame Generation

The goal here was to push the game closer to 60 fps while keeping the exact same settings as in the previous test.

RESULTS:

• Frame rates are roughly doubled
• But it doesn’t feel fully natural yet
• Camera movement becomes quite stuttery Promising technology, but not perfect yet (assuming it ever can be for this kind of game)

C. With the FusionFix patch

Just drop the FusionFix files into the game folder, next to the .exe. I spent hours tweaking the settings and eventually found my personal "sweet spot". I'm sharing screenshots of all my settings.

My goal was:

• staying below 70°C
• avoiding fan noise
• preserving battery life as much as possible

RESULTS:

• Never above 70°C
• No fan needed
• Around 50–55 fps

I'm quite (very) happy with results!

Let me know if you tried it and got different results, or if you managed to achieve something even better. One question though: between stable temperatures of 60°C and 70°C, do you personally enable the fan to protect the device, or not?