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that shouldn't be necessary - how could installing an application affect your drivers? maybe migrating x3 settings? (if as craig says, x3 and patinum relase them differently)
Of course it shouldn't be necessary in a perfect world. However driver software (as other software) sometimes erroneously updates registry settings and file dependencies in it's update script, or the software isn't handling specific use cases correctly in peoples system configurations (the software developer just hasn't accounted for it), or there's something iffy going on in the the registry or a file/library dependency caused by another external factor. It has worked for me (several times) and others in these forums, that's not to say in this instance it will work or not, but it isn't something to be dismissed either.
My view is it could be a plugin issue but it's just speculation at my end (the cause right now is unknown), you need to patiently rule things out one at a time. I generally start with drivers/firmware and windows (windows update), then plugins, then Sonar (bottom upwards). Most of the time it gets to the root of the cause assuming there isn't anything listed in logs such as the Windows event viewer (should look at that as often it is a shortcut). At the end of it in the rare case of something not being resolved you end up going to support.
Cheers...