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The real game changer was going from 256 colors to 16 bit. The jump to 24 bit/true color after that wasn't as huge.
Yes!! The 640x480 screen I mentioned only supported 16 colours. 256 was supposed to work, but trying to change it to 256 would just cause the entire display to become corrupted. I tried multiple drivers and multiple refresh rates, but nothing worked. Maybe my S3 Trio3D was faulty.
Upgrading from that to 800x600 with 16 bit colour was such an amazing improvement.