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Originally Posted by SEE
.....apart from mirrors (which eat FPS when enabled)
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Yep that is the real reason they can be toggled.
They were introduced at a time when mirrors slowed all but the most expensive gaming rigs to a standstill.
Toggling the mirrors meant normal people (who had not sold their grandmother to buy a high end game rig) could take advantage of mirrors when they needed them without making the game unplayable.
In online terms, fixed mirrors disadvantaged people on slower machines.