Let's say the RGB value is xr, xg, xb which range from 0 to 255.

The solution:

1) Render the scene in any way you want with any settings you want, but make sure you use Linear color mapping with 1.0 for both Bright and Dark multipliers and the "Clamp output" option is off, and you are using the Vray camera "Exposure" setting. It would also be handy if you render to the Vray VFB.

Turn on in your GI reflective caustics often adds only problems. But there is a bypass maneuver, which offered a caustic little bit with a small (about 30%) increase render time but without any stains! To do this, check DE (Detail Enhancement), and to calculate the LC and Ir map in to file with switched off reflective caustics, and before render turn on casuistic and use from file LC and Ir map. Settings of DE will be responsible for the quality of caustics. For a large resolution could be left default value. For the smaller resolution it`s possible to use world and set the desired radius mm.

For quick Exterior preview rendering, you need to put Vray Light in a mode Dome Area Light type and put in to Texture Sky (image, hdr or shader). Other settings are not necessarily touch. In this case, no need to include the GI, and you can see quite quickly lighting and materials. This is how it will turn out, and render final. But! Will be noisy and not very fast. And most importantly - too deep shadows. Making a contrasting picture easily. We should only reduce the gamma in color mapping.