- Have vconsole2 open and listening on port 29000 (aka just launch vconsole2.exe
Counter-Strike Global Offensive\game\bin\win64\vconsole2.exe
) - Use -novconsole when you launch with "-tools" e.g.
cs2.exe -tools -novconsole
(after losing 3 hours on this -- I'm hoping google indexs this for anyone in the future until this is fix)