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Answering myself - hope that's ok. This is definately something to do with the way the Virtual Machine handles Ogre/OpenGL. It may also be something to do with the NVidia drivers, I don't know. I had the same issue with both VMWare Player and VirtualBox. I used Win 10 WSL with XMing and the text overlays worked.

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