I am freaking out. As soon as Steam starts, it attempts to resume installing Fallout 4 only to crash totally. It's stuck at around 57%. I've tried deleted the downloaded files, re-downloading, deleting the ClientRegistry.blob file... it's one thing for Fallout 4 not to work, but when it locks me out of all other games, there is a problem.

Operating System- Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

CPU- Intel Pentium G860 @ 3.00GHz Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology

RAM- 8.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz (11-11-11-28)

Motherboard- ASRock Z75 Pro3 (CPUSocket)

Graphics-

VG248 (1920x1080@144Hz)
Intel HD Graphics (ASRock)
2048MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (Gigabyte)

Storage-
1863GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH164 (SATA) 33 °C
111GB Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120GB (SSD) 34 °C
1863GB Western Digital WDC WD2003FZEX-00Z4SA0 (SATA) 35 °C

Audio-
Realtek High Definition Audio

How much free space do you have on the install drive (for Fallout 4)?

871 GB.

Have you had any luck yet? I try to install and once it gets to 18.9 gb/24.0 it stops downloading from steam. steam then crashes. tried uninstalling and reinstalling, tried deleting .blob and steam.dll, tried deleting downloads folder and still nothing.

No luck yet, tried rebooting and I'm at 44% now. We'll see how this game. I've heard of game-breaking bugs, but Steam-breaking? This is ridiculous.

i dont get it. this just doesnt make any sense to me. steam download casing entire computer to crash, that is ridiculous.

I get to 13.7 then crash.

It's always crashing at the same file size point so it has to be a file in particular. Wish there was a way to find out what the conflict is.

Hopefully I can find a friend with the game and just copy the files over.

There's a thread on Steam about transferring the data, my last hope.

I read somewhere that there is a problem with the Samsung 840 evo ssd while writing files, try change the install destination

I'm not installing on the Samsung, though?

i don't really know but maybe try to check if there is even a little fallout file , like savedata or something that it's beeing installed to that DIR

Fixed, for anyone else with the problem there is the chance the pre-load files are bugged. Go to Drive:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps and delete downloading and depotcache files. Restart steam. Fallout 4 is now downloading from 0% and will finish.