Hi.
I've been using Boinc for quite a while now on different machines. I really like the possibility to set a project manager to control things from anywhere and not have to do it from home.
Unfortunately Boinc still allows projects to fiddle with the preferences despite this. This is just disturbing.

When I set up preferences to use a certain amount of memory on a machine and some project preferences override this with a smaller value, projects that I want to run won't run anymore.
When vbox applications take stopping badly they might crash. Properly adjusted preferences can prevent this. Loading unfit preferences might cause a crash, hours of work might be destroyed (on RNA World we're talking about months, not hours btw.), users will be frustrated and maybe stop using Boinc.
If GPU on/off settings are changed a machine will not be responsive anymore if you're unlucky.
Furthermore my MacBook Pro has issues with its graphics card. If it gets stopped because the setting is changed to 'don't use GPU while machine is in use' and I touch a key it freezes. This is not disturbing, this is a reason to ban Boinc from it which I don't want, or to not run GPU projects.

I suggest that if a project manager is used only preferences loaded by the manager will be used.
That way the above-mentioned things will not annoy users.
A way to implement this might be the use of the the preferences override-file through the project manager.
Thanks for reading.

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Greetings, Jens

With "project manager" do you mean an account manager, like BAM or GridRepublic or something else?