Similar Articles: Fallout New Vegas: Veronica Companion Guide. You can input all of the commands here, and then press Enter to activate them. Pressing this will cause the game to pause, and a text bar will appear in the bottom left corner of the screen. This is usually found right below the Esc key on most keyboards. Now they can open up the Console by pressing the tilde (~) key. In order to use console commands, players first have to boot up the game and either load a save or start a new game.