MacBook Pro Working Horribly!

Alright, so my MacBook Pro Has These Specifications:
Mac OSX Lion 10.7.5 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 4GB Ram 1333 MHz DDR3
Total Meamory: 499.25 GB
Avaliable Meamory: 317 GB
The Problem:
I, as a Minecraft YouTuber, Recorded The Game Perfectly Fine, Running at around 30-40 FPS WHILE Recording, and one day, i opened it up to record, and my god was i laggy, i was not recording yet, and running at around 15-20 FPS, recording 5-10, After that ,i did:
1. Mac Cleaning With CleanMyMac2, Maccbooster etc.
2. Ran My Mac In Safe Mode
3. Deleted A BUNCH of Programs That I didnt need.
And None of that helped, now dont say that i just dont have enough RAM, i ran it Fine with 4 GB earlier, and now i dont, while i did not Open up the inside of my Computer or anything, it just kinda got ddrained, i tried using magician to see how much ram was acually being used, and it turned out that JAVA was using about 1 GB of ram, now my computer has 4 GB, and i had pretty much none applucations open other than Minecraft, so i should be running fine, but no, 20 FPS at most. If anyone could PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me, i would be EXTREMELY gratefull, anyway, hope to hear from everyone soon!
-Syzzle

Based on the information that you have provided, you have a late 2011 13" MBP.
Syzzle wrote:
1. Mac Cleaning With CleanMyMac2, Maccbooster etc.
Delete these applications.  They are unnecessary and may be contributing to your problems.
And None of that helped, now dont say that i just dont have enough RAM, i ran it Fine with 4 GB earlier, and now i dont,
Installation of 8 GB RAM would help, not only for games but for general use as well.  Lion/Mt. lion are RAM gluttons.
while i did not Open up the inside of my Computer or anything, it just kinda got ddrained, i tried using magician to see how much ram was acually being used, and it turned out that JAVA was using about 1 GB of ram,
I have no idea what you mean by 'drained'.  If you want to examine RAM usage, use Activity Monitor. 
Installation of an SSD would add a significant boost to your MBP performance for games and such.  That depends upon the size of you bank account since they are expensive.
Understand that your MBP has only rudimentary GPU capabilities and was never intended to be a good 'gaming' computer.
Ciao.

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