diff --git a/pcsx2-gsrunner/Main.cpp b/pcsx2-gsrunner/Main.cpp
index 88d67bc806..3c91473460 100644
--- a/pcsx2-gsrunner/Main.cpp
+++ b/pcsx2-gsrunner/Main.cpp
@@ -60,7 +60,9 @@
 
 namespace GSRunner
 {
+	static void InitializeConsole();
 	static bool InitializeConfig();
+	static bool ParseCommandLineArgs(int argc, char* argv[], VMBootParameters& params);
 
 	static bool CreatePlatformWindow();
 	static void DestroyPlatformWindow();
@@ -77,6 +79,7 @@ alignas(16) static SysMtgsThread s_mtgs_thread;
 static std::string s_output_prefix;
 static s32 s_loop_count = 1;
 static std::optional<bool> s_use_window;
+static bool s_no_console = false;
 
 // Owned by the GS thread.
 static u32 s_dump_frame_number = 0;
@@ -112,7 +115,7 @@ bool GSRunner::InitializeConfig()
 	si.SetBoolValue("EmuCore", "EnablePerGameSettings", false);
 
 	// force logging
-	si.SetBoolValue("Logging", "EnableSystemConsole", true);
+	si.SetBoolValue("Logging", "EnableSystemConsole", !s_no_console);
 	si.SetBoolValue("Logging", "EnableTimestamps", true);
 	si.SetBoolValue("Logging", "EnableVerbose", true);
 
@@ -453,7 +456,15 @@ static void PrintCommandLineHelp(const char* progname)
 	std::fprintf(stderr, "\n");
 }
 
-static bool ParseCommandLineArgs(int argc, char* argv[], VMBootParameters& params)
+void GSRunner::InitializeConsole()
+{
+	const char* var = std::getenv("PCSX2_NOCONSOLE");
+	s_no_console = (var && StringUtil::FromChars<bool>(var).value_or(false));
+	if (!s_no_console)
+		CommonHost::InitializeEarlyConsole();
+}
+
+bool GSRunner::ParseCommandLineArgs(int argc, char* argv[], VMBootParameters& params)
 {
 	bool no_more_args = false;
 	for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++)
@@ -650,7 +661,7 @@ static bool ParseCommandLineArgs(int argc, char* argv[], VMBootParameters& param
 
 int main(int argc, char* argv[])
 {
-	CommonHost::InitializeEarlyConsole();
+	GSRunner::InitializeConsole();
 
 	if (!GSRunner::InitializeConfig())
 	{
@@ -659,7 +670,7 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[])
 	}
 
 	VMBootParameters params;
-	if (!ParseCommandLineArgs(argc, argv, params))
+	if (!GSRunner::ParseCommandLineArgs(argc, argv, params))
 		return EXIT_FAILURE;
 
 	PerformanceMetrics::SetCPUThread(Threading::ThreadHandle::GetForCallingThread());
diff --git a/pcsx2-gsrunner/test_run_dumps.py b/pcsx2-gsrunner/test_run_dumps.py
index 8a5864f0da..29b5d0da22 100644
--- a/pcsx2-gsrunner/test_run_dumps.py
+++ b/pcsx2-gsrunner/test_run_dumps.py
@@ -46,11 +46,15 @@ def run_regression_test(runner, dumpdir, renderer, upscale, renderhacks, paralle
     if parallel > 1:
         args.append("-noshadercache")
 
+    # disable output console entirely
+    environ = os.environ.copy()
+    environ["PCSX2_NOCONSOLE"] = "1"
+
     args.append("--")
     args.append(gspath)
 
-    print("Running '%s'" % (" ".join(args)))
-    subprocess.run(args)
+    #print("Running '%s'" % (" ".join(args)))
+    subprocess.run(args, env=environ, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL)
 
 
 def run_regression_tests(runner, gsdir, dumpdir, renderer, upscale, renderhacks, parallel=1):
@@ -69,7 +73,10 @@ def run_regression_tests(runner, gsdir, dumpdir, renderer, upscale, renderhacks,
         print("Processing %u games on %u processors" % (len(gamepaths), parallel))
         func = partial(run_regression_test, runner, dumpdir, renderer, upscale, renderhacks, parallel)
         pool = multiprocessing.Pool(parallel)
-        pool.map(func, gamepaths)
+        completed = 0
+        for _ in pool.imap_unordered(func, gamepaths, chunksize=1):
+            completed += 1
+            print("Processed %u of %u GS dumps (%u%%)" % (completed, len(gamepaths), (completed * 100) // len(gamepaths)))
         pool.close()