CS2 takes forever to start – anyone else experiencing this?

My CS2 takes an insanely long time to start. I mean it takes forever before the CS2 icon even appears in the taskbar.

I've already tried pretty much everything:

• Clearing the shader cache
• Updating and downgrading my GPU drivers
• Verifying the game files
• Reinstalling CS2
• Reinstalling/updating various drivers

Nothing has fixed the issue so far.

Has anyone else experienced this or found a solution?

Specs:

• RTX 4080
• Ryzen 7 9800X3D
• 32 GB DDR5 RAM
• 2x Kingston 2 TB M.2 SSDs