mouse lags and becomes unresponsive

I just recently installed ubuntu/Mate 16.04, I have been running Ubuntu for 10 years. The mouse becomes unresponsive and lags terribly after several hours on the system. I found an attempt at a fix which works as an immediate fix. When I boot up in the morning all is fine until 8-9 hours later when the mouse goes crazy again - the issue repeats everyday.

This is the fix I found. note the fix is only temorary.

https://superuser.com/questions/528727/how-do-i-solve-periodic-mouse-lag-on-linux-mint-mate

To save some peeps the trouble of going to the link here are the specific instructions I followed (copy and paste each line on a terminal):

sudo su -
modprobe drm_kms_helper
echo N> /sys/module/drm_kms_helper/parameters/poll
echo "drm_kms_helper" >> /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf
echo 'drm_kms_helper' >> /etc/modules-load.d/local.conf
echo "options drm_kms_helper poll=N" >> /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf

Thank you
Bryan