not sure if it will help anyone else but this worked for me.
Start regedit
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters
There should be an entry named OverrideKeyboardSubtype with a type of REG_DWORD and a value of 2.
Set the value to 0 and reboot.
Hot diggity-d*mn, this works!
Thanks...so far I've never been able to bring up a console on any game.