I've been having this stupid problem with my NS console ever since i started using steam.
Whenever i press the tilde(~) button to bring up the console, and then type in anything, the console promptly disappears.
I then have to press the tilde button again and sometimes it wont exit abruptly.

Also I've noticed another problem that occurs in tandem- whenever i exit my console, my crosshair gets fudged(i.e. it becomes non-existant).

So I really have 2 questions:

1. How do I make my console function normally?

2. What do I do to make my crosshair reappaear when it disappears(short of restarting the game?)

/me ponders

never seen this before.

Ideas:

1) Remove all of your .cfg files from your nsp dir (this effectivly resets all of your controlls as the files will simply be recreated.)
That is my idea for the console issue

2) Update all drivers (specialy video)
Just a thought on the video problem, and hey, it never hurts (... wait yes it does, ok generaly dosn't hurt )

3) Switch between OGL and D3D modes for your video settings
Hey, yah never know

Gl mate

Hmm, I tried what you said, and changing to D3D fudges up the graphics completely. So I think I'll have to stay with OGL..

I'm currently downloading the video drivers

In the meanwhile I've figured that just not using the console should take care of the problem, thanks for the help

Type 'crosshair 1' in the console to get your crosshair back. That is, of course, if you can get the console to come up I'd suggest you delete your config.cfg file and start a fresh. Hope this helps.